Books Feeding Nursing home 
GeriPal
MARCH 13, 2025
First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. And I would just plug this book. Canadians are welcoming.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Mariah 15:00 In books and literature that’s out in public, like the body keeps the score is probably one that many people have heard of, but there are others that I think talk about it more now than has been in the past. But I think that there’s been a lot of evolution to how we even talk about what is a traumatic event.
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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?
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.
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?
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago.
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