GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. We’re delighted to welcome Judy Long, who’s a palliative care chaplain at UCSF and a caregiver. We need to learn from them that they have moved on, so how do we not dwell in the past negative events? Alex: We have a full house today.

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Caregiver Support Services

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A birthday party that caters to their comfort and preferences will make the event memorable and enjoyable. If you have moved back home to care for your elder parent, you may find party planning to be a welcome distraction and a loving tribute to their role in your life. Encourage guests to keep gifts simple or symbolic.

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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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Community Home Health Care

APRIL 21, 2022

Caregiving family members of seniors, as well, believe that aging in place is the ideal choice, both for the well-being of the patient and for the peace of mind it can afford their family members. Here we offer a comprehensive outline of how hired caregivers can be of assistance, as well as the benefits patients enjoy while living at home: 1.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 15, 2024

For therapists and caregivers alike, promoting spontaneous conversation is crucial in assessing a client’s functional communication skills, as it reveals how effectively someone can express themselves and engage with others in real-world situations. Contextual adaptability: Participants respond to the immediate context and cues from others.

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Always Best Care Senior Services

AUGUST 31, 2022

Moving them to assisted living or a nursing home may create more confusion and frustration for them, especially if they do not require that level of care. You can schedule a caregiver to come during the times when your loved one most needs it, whether that is first thing in the morning, during the evening, or throughout the day.

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 13, 2024

Laura Herman is a dementia care specialist at ABC Dementia , which supports dementia family caregivers remotely through resources, conversations, and coaching. Herman also suggests letting management know the person’s needs, such as not offering them alcohol at social events, or helping them get to their meetings weekly.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You may also identify reports published by governing bodies and potential third parties (such as nursing home abuse lawyers ) if a facility has been investigated. Choosing the best care home with your elderly parents will not be easy. Final Thoughts.

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AlayaCare

APRIL 1, 2020

For aging home care clients, isolation is a particularly significant issue that can threaten their entire well-being. The esteemed Johns Hopkins Medicine also weighed in on this issue , with tips on caregiving for the elderly in the current climate. For anyone, isolation is hard.

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Comfort Home Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Organize volunteer events at local shelters or nursing homes. If you live in the Rockville, MD, area and need a healthcare solution for a senior family member, contact the compassionate caregivers at Comfort Home Care today. Invite friends over for dinner parties and game nights. Join a book club (or start one).

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Chicago Caregiving

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the months since the Covid-19 public health emergency, we’ve wondered how professional caregiving has changed. Our caregivers and office staff were able to adapt to all the changes a non-medical home care agency now had to comply with in the field when working with their clients. What is the no. Jenny: People are resilient.

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

MAY 8, 2023

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. How can you help a person through this challenging life event? This is typically a short-term time of intensive therapy to promote healing and recovery.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

– Trend #1: The Caregiver Shortage Negatively Impacted Nearly 100% of Providers—the Worst it’s Ever Been. Article Contents: Trend #1: The Caregiver Shortage Negatively Impacted Nearly 100% of Providers—the Worst it’s Ever Been. Agency owners haven’t struggled with caregiver shortages this much in 3 years.

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Community Home Health Care

AUGUST 1, 2022

We’ve compiled some practical tips and resources that can help caregivers prepare older adults for a smooth transfer to a new place of living. Family and caregivers may need to arrange for moving because of a crisis that suddenly made them aware that a higher level of care is now necessary. Keep the planning process collaborative.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. And it starts with this quote from a caregiver.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And what that meant is that the training had to fall to the busy nursing supervisors or even the staff nurses. And I knew that the training for the caregiver’s aids and CNAs would be what suffered. And then now that’s passed down to caregivers in a lot of settings, right? Remember this is ancient history.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Patients will have difficulty remembering current events as well as their own personal past history. Patients may forget even their closest loved one’s names, memories shared in a lifetime, current and past events, and even where they are. To keep them safe, they will need a full-time caregiver. When Is It Time for Hospice Care?

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Cathy: Actually, many years ago, I did some research on delirium and then I was doing some research on nursing home residents and we were doing work looking at, I was interested in how sleep problems and nighttime events might lead to delirium, and then I just became very, very interested in sleep.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. First, Black and Latinx persons experienced much higher rates of mortality than other groups. So it’s no surprise, to me, that the outcomes will be different.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

James: I know a lot of my patients, there were concerns of that ability to take the medications without supervision, since they weren’t having as much caregiver support during COVID, or they had difficulty coming into the clinic for an infusion. So these are really relevant outcome events. Eric: I like that one.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Amanda Sternklar ( 01:47 ): <Laugh> Kristen Wheeler ( 01:49 ): So I think for a, it, it happens for a lot of us that we just sort of find ourselves in private duty, home care, Like it’s a, it’s bizarre, but you just end up there, right? The same is true for home health aide and caregivers.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Amanda Sternklar ( 01:47 ): <Laugh> Kristen Wheeler ( 01:49 ): So I think for a, it, it happens for a lot of us that we just sort of find ourselves in private duty, home care, Like it’s a, it’s bizarre, but you just end up there, right? The same is true for home health aide and caregivers.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 13, 2023

Chris has spent most of his life in the senior living and skilled nursing industries. And when not working, he can be found at a golf course, sporting event or concert venue. And so I would spend so much time at these different nursing homes. And one of ’em was in, or Utah, or nursing rehab.

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 27, 2022

”—Guest editorial, “Elder Mistreatment Prevention Rounds in Nursing Homes” The July issue of AJN is now live. A Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone article on promoting safe mobility for older adults. We wait for it to happen and then find those to blame. Here’s what’s new.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 19, 2023

It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” 1] I do know however, that excellent care is being provided in many LTC homes, most of the time. Topping the list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?”,

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 18, 2024

He had come a long way from when he was born — an event that nearly killed him. When you look at the cost of use of ERs, premature placement of people in nursing homes, jails — which are very expensive — it was worth investing in permanent housing,” Gonyea says. That was big, big for me,” Franklin says. “I Hartford Foundation.

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