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5-Step Guide to Developing a Long-Term Care Plan

Accessible Home Health Care

It also comes with challenges that sometimes mean that the seniors in our lives need long-term care for their overall health and wellness. However, inviting an at-home caregiver into your family members life isnt the only serious consideration when developing a long-term care plan for your senior loved one.

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Her name was Martha: Honoring legacies in long-term care

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

In long-term care, we often meet residents at the sunset of their lives, at a time when their accomplishments may be less visible, their voices quieter, and their presence potentially reduced. When we take the time to truly see our residents as whole, vibrant individuals with deep histories, we transform the care experience.

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National Alliance: Medicaid Cuts Would Adversely Impact Home-, Community-Based Services

Hospice News

Attempts to limit reductions to the childless adult group would negatively impact many paid and unpaid caregivers who provide HCBS. The optional nature of HCBS and the ability to cap enrollment and establish waiting lists creates additional vulnerabilities when Medicaid spending reductions and state budget shortfalls occur.

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5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face including approaches that integrate palliative care services.

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Hospice CEO’s Top Predictions for 2025

Hospice News

Cheryl Hamilton Fried, CEO, Kirva Hospice Demand grows despite blustery staffing headwinds We will begin to see a more significant increase in utilization in 2025 (vs 2024) as education regarding the benefit, increased [long term care] occupancy versus the pandemic era, and a growing senior demographic all converge on the sector.

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VitalCaring Leverages AI Program to Improve Outcomes, Ease Caregiver Burden

Hospice News

VitalCaring Group has leveraged AI technology to help improve quality among patients with cognitive conditions and ease caregiver burden. The Cognitive Care Pilot Program was offered during a seven-month period to 52 home health patients with conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, Parkinson’s and brain tumors, among others.

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Travel hacks for the busy professional parent: Lessons from long-term care

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Stay calm: They will follow your lead As a rehab professional, I know that patients in skilled nursing facilities often take cues from their caregivers. Whether its in long-term care or any other field, professionals who are also parents are not an anomaly; we are the norm. If we appear stressed, they feel uneasy.