GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Candidly, since then, it’s felt like home because there’s so much need that people have, beyond the caregivers, in how we engage patients. The pandemic really shifted how caregivers think about and engage with technology. That’s what drew me to the industry.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our volunteers can help with a pet’s daily needs – things like walking, feeding, and cleaning litter boxes. The documents associated with the pet placement plans are notarized, according to Diane McGill, founder and president of Pet Peace of Mind. We can get pets to grooming and veterinary appointments.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film provides a window into what hospices actually do, as well as the experience of families whose loved ones are nearing end of life, the challenges of caregiving and grief that often begins long before the patient dies, according to Jonathan Fleece, CEO of Empath Health. “I

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And that I see as something very positive, because I think none of us like to spend hours documenting. I believe we should be paying in-home caregivers more. Alex: Yeah. Charlotta: Yeah.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. I can’t imagine learning more from being the sister, being the caregiver of Daniel, just to see all the gaps in chronic care management, to see all the gaps in care of the seriously ill. Again, caregivers have dwindled. What does that mean?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Eric: Whose job, though, is it? No, no, please.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing. But yeah, full treatment.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 16, 2022

no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. We enable our caregivers to advocate for us when we are unable to do so for ourselves. The majority of people, even those who are seriously ill, haven’t talked about or documented their wishes.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. I had planned for this month’s blog, second in our series about common mistakes that family caregivers make, to be about the importance of having a support system in place. Advance directives do not have to be complicated documents.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. Then, documents from the referral source (i.e. Who is the primary caregiver? Foleys/Tubes -Does the patient have any tubes such as feeding tubes, CADD pumps, or Foley catheters.

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High Peaks Hospice

AUGUST 31, 2023

no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. We enable our caregivers to advocate for us when we are unable to do so for ourselves. The majority of people, even those who are seriously ill, haven’t talked about or documented their wishes.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

a> Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management. The answer to that question determined whether the beer went down the feeding tube or was a savor and spit process. Sunday dinners involved feeding four generations.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the one hand people have said research is the meticulous documentation of the blatantly obvious, which is kind of LaVera’s point here. And actually I want to give a shout-out to Karen actually for having one of the other few studies that focuses on family members as she has studies of caregivers in the outpatient setting.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. So, and actually, all of this is actually document, I think what you guys are looking for is more practical advice on sort of management. It’s, you know, it’s the experience of touch.

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