Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me? Hey, that’s great.

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

Every once in while, we discover that a dear friend or family member is cast into the role of being a caregiver for someone who is in an end of life situation. In this episode, Mitch Ware explains the importance of helping out our caregiver friends, and offers several ways to do so tactfully. " So how can you help a caregiver?

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Always Best Care Senior Services

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Join a book club, an exercise class, or a travel group. They rely on you to care for them: feeding, walking, grooming, playing – it can keep you busy and give you something to look forward to. Stay active with the support of an in-home caregiver who can provide you with the level of help you need when you need it.

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Hope Hospice

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In most cases, caregivers (often, family members) are at a loss of how to provide dementia-related care. Dementia symptoms have changed the relationship between caregiver and loved one, and it’s common to feel at a loss of what to do. Let’s review some ways to feed these emotional needs. Attending to Well-Being. VIEW SCHEDULE.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2021

They take pride in the roles they play as visiting caregivers who enrich lives. My book, Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes , includes a chapter on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. Dementia is understood with relevance and meaning.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills. And I knew that the training for the caregiver’s aids and CNAs would be what suffered. Remember this is ancient history.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And then the big one, which is a big focus, is caregiving and, you know, finding those caregivers. And so the likelihood that some random caregiver that has no idea who you are that is gonna find and see your we’re hiring post is not an ideal strategy. How can we sell caregiving more?

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

As I've been both a caregiver and a volunteer for hospice. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. And of course, we've been bombarded by movies and books and all sorts of things. He goes, "Mitch, we get to feed it crickets and stuff.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Everybody, everybody starts on that emotional roller coaster whether they realize it or not, I mean friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church or the book club. Could I have done something more to be a better caregiver?

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. Eric: And just a quick note, Sammy too on TikTok and on Instagram.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This past summer, I bought myself a Kindle, mostly because I'm tired of trying to get rid of the books that pile up around the house. Books are heavy to cart around, aren't they? I've found that I can really dig through a lot of books using my Kindle, and the variety of books on offer makes my reading list pretty varied and fun.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

That doesn’t really do much, but we’re not willing to do that for caregiver support. So, focusing on caregiver support, getting not the expensive stuff in people’s house, but the things that matter most, like grab bars for those who need it. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger. AlexSmithMD. Right, Lori?

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