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Five kids, one nursing home and a deck of cards

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Pair each child with a resident who might enjoy helping with a simple art project or reading a favorite book aloud. Here are a few easy ways to begin fostering intergenerational interactions this summer: Bring your kids to work for a craft session or story hour. Start a Summer Pen Pal program.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Anne, you’ve been going to a lot of conferences on arts and healthcare, and I was thinking back to Ab years ago.

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AGG, New Day’s Bill Dombi: Hospices’ ‘Vibrant Evolutionary Path’ Spurs Legal Growing Pains 

Hospice News

Dombi also recently joined New Day Healthcare LLCs board of advisors. Nursing homes have had this, home health has had it as well, but maybe it didnt all have the same name. And thats often because they are not reading from the rule book. This was not thrust upon the community.

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Fun Winter Activities For Seniors

Comfort Home Care

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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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

What’s your favorite book? Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. Jenny 23:26 Oh, it’s literally a documentary of people following specific patients in nursing homes who benefit from music and seeing the impact of music. And they would freeze.

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Ep.4: The Top 5 Challenges the Care Industry is Facing—And How Agencies Can Respond

Home Care Pulse

Now to tackle this big subject, we are so lucky to be joined by Kristen Wheeler, and many of you probably know her in the healthcare industry since 1990 and in home care since 2006. So I was, I worked way back when, when I got into health in the healthcare industry itself. Like, Boy, wish I was home. Employee shortages.