Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. He was in his early 60s when I was born, and he suffered a stroke in 1989, which threw our family into the post-acute medical care space and encouraged me to take on a caregiving role.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

Hiring an in-home nurse can be a game-changer for family caregivers. They offer much-needed professional care for their loved ones. Evaluate Your Caregiving Abilities You’re dedicated to caring for your loved one in need. Here’s what to know before hiring in-home nursing services.

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Caregiver Support Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Ranging from hands-on patient care to research and administration roles, there’s something out there for anyone interested. These dedicated individuals specialize in diagnosing illnesses, prescribing treatments and providing ongoing patient care, from pediatrics , cardiology, to dermatology specialization.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And Theresa studies music for people with dementia and their caregivers.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Amanda Sternklar ( 00:41 ): Brett is the vice president of a long-term companion, and he has over a decade of experience as a home care agency owner and operator. Caregivers have at least three years of tenure, and nearly one out of four caregivers have worked with a long-term companion for at least five years.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And so are the patients. As the caregiver or as a family member of the patient? Is that really in the best interest of the patient? Maria 41:31 A lot of it is dialysis time. Because they have to go to a dialysis facility for, you know, three times a week for the most part. Are you okay? Eric 41:53 Great. I love that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. So their caregivers did focus groups. And they had to have a family caregiver. Our consultation.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I mean, I don’t even want to discharge, well, people who have shortness of breath, let alone people who have uncontrolled pain or other things or things that are bringing them into an emergency department and could have fragile caregivers and all sorts of things. And so then you need caregivers to. Let me ask you this.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are an in-home care company. We provide personal care, skilled home health, palliative care, hospice care, and behavioral health. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. I have provided home and community-based services for 35 years.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. Eric: Lack of a caregiver.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Does the approach shift when its a caregiver requesting PULET for an older relative who lost capacity? Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments. Chelation therapy.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At nursing school, Johnson fell in love with working with geriatric patients; now, she works in Luminis Health’s Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit. I collaborate with a team of medical professionals to ensure every patient receives the care they deserve. Everyone is supportive, loving and caring.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But it sounds from your description that the basic concern would arise there too, that whether it’s the patient or the patient’s family caregivers that have values and goals that are promoting comfort oriented care and, oh by the way, they also completed a POLST, that’s entirely plausible. Karl: Okay.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And that they may be able to access some of these under some circumstances, but not stressful circumstances, that there’s a dyadic interaction with the provider, who also has their own coping styles that may relate, resonate, or have dissonance with the style of the patient or the caregiver or the couple. This is complicated.

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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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like. He says he wants to know what your take is on services of, of death, doulas to help provide more of that person-centered attention to the terminal person.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And this is where I think qualitative data from caregiver bereaved caregivers would be super useful. The post Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. And so I wonder if the.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

She’s also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), where she serves as Co-Director of the HIGN Scholars Program, an Affiliate Associate Professor at Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and a Volunteer Associate Professor for the State University of Haiti.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. I generally think of palliative care as existing to improve people’s quality of life and asking people to do that is not part of what we’re trying to accomplish. It’s been a little while since I did direct patient care. Alex: Hope so.

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