Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

By understanding the importance of spirituality in many people’s lives, healthcare workers and other caregivers can create better plans of encouragement for patients. 3) Spirituality has also improved the quality of life and reduced the risk of disease and death for the patient's caregiver.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

4: Alzheimer’s Awareness: How to Support Clients, Caregivers, and Family Members Wendie Colvin, Senior Clinical Content Writer at Home Care Pulse, discusses how we can prepare clients, caregivers, and family members for the progression of Alzheimer's, and what agencies need to do to support the millions of people living with this disease.

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

MAY 8, 2023

After a hospitalization or surgical procedure, the physician may recommend rehab in an assisted living facility before the person returns home. However, the idea of moving into an assisted living facility or nursing home even for a matter of weeks or months can be extremely difficult to accept. Play games and cards together.

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Comfort Home Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Organize volunteer events at local shelters or nursing homes. Join a book club (or start one). Whether it’s an outdoor adventure in nature or an indoor game night with friends and family, starting a book club, or getting in some cardio, there are plenty of great ways to keep everyone entertained during these cold months.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

"Kinship care" is a popular term often used in reference to caregiving performed by a family member. I believe non-relatives who serve as committed caregivers during illness should also be included in the kinship care definition and treated as such. Visit Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog and Frances Shani Parker's Website.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Older adults are a growing population that more people are having contact with as caregivers and in general living. Frances Shani Parker is author of Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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The World According to Dr. El

MARCH 8, 2022

creates a SNF wave ”), these residents generally arrive at nursing homes following a health crisis but are frequently difficult to discharge even after they’re medically stable, due to the need to manage concomitant medical and mental health problems. In addition, this cohort tends to be relatively young and able.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 2, 2020

Physical neglect and abuse in caregiving are other issues. The Internet, numerous senior organizations such as AARP , senior publications, books, videos, and anti-bullying workshops for senior communities can provide significantly helpful information regarding the creation of an anti-bullying culture.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. For example, one case that we had not too long ago, one of the hardest cases, nobody was willing to touch him, no caregiver. JAMA Health Forum. I’m excited.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. 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.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Being a hospice nurse can leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. If so, then you need these 7 simple ways to get organized for hospice nurses. Unlike working at a hospital or nursing home, you don’t just get to pop back into your patients’ rooms after you leave. Sound familiar? Know the Visit Type.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The same is true for home health aide and caregivers. <Affirmative> And, you know, that’s not the, the, the going thought when you talk about home health aides or personal care aids or certified nursing assistant, certified nursing assistant gets a little bit of a bump mm-hmm. <Affirmative>

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The same is true for home health aide and caregivers. <Affirmative> And, you know, that’s not the, the, the going thought when you talk about home health aides or personal care aids or certified nursing assistant, certified nursing assistant gets a little bit of a bump mm-hmm. <Affirmative>

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System. Prof Case Manag. Geriatrics.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JUNE 13, 2021

Like millions of people carrying personal stories others will never know, he told me he was a caregiver after I happened to mention my involvement with eldercare. According to AARP , the typical caregiver is a middle-aged woman caring for a relative, often her mother. Acceptance of my role as a male caregiver had to be addressed.

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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. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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