Blog Feeding Nursing home 
GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. I think it’s around one in 12 nursing home patients But it’s a lot.
Nurse.com
JUNE 1, 2023
Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.
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Hope Hospice
JUNE 29, 2022
That’s why falls are the most common cause of nursing home placement. You might also like: Assisting With Personal Hygiene > Seniors and Hot-Weather Safety > Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients > The post Fall Prevention appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Do not move your shoulders or feet.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
APRIL 3, 2022
At nursing home mealtimes, I served as a hospice volunteer at several Detroit, Michigan nursing homes for many years. Petra was not a very independent eater, but I knew she was physically capable of feeding herself by any means necessary. What food?" My assigned hospice residents were always my primary concern.
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2021
I have had many occasions as an educator to implement and consult on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. For example, after students learn how to write letters at school, service-learning could include writing letters to nursing home residents who would benefit from receiving them.
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