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How to Support a Senior During a Short-Term Stay at an Assisted Living Facility

Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

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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Staff Bullies in Older Adult Senior Living Communities: Anti-Bullying Culture

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

This story involves two residents who were discussing how housekeepers do their jobs. One said she timed her housekeeper and discovered the housekeeper was cleaning her apartment in only seven minutes, which she felt was too short a time. The complaining senior responded, “No, I didn’t report it.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

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

Home Care Pulse

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. But but yeah, I think that now is the time that we can actually affect this change.

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

Home Care Pulse

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. But but yeah, I think that now is the time that we can actually affect this change.

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Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski

GeriPal

We really don’t want seniors living at home alone when we know it’s dangerous for them and it’s going to make them end up in the hospital and go to a nursing home. You can have a housekeeper; you can have a pool boy… Eric: And in one of your articles… Lee: … or pool girl. Awesome book.