GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. You’ll have a feeding tube.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Is cancer pain really different? Katie: Yep.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me?

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Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

you know, I think there’s, there’s definitely been a change in the perception of continuing education and how important it is for all healthcare professionals. Just one example, when I moved from Minnesota to North Carolina, I was kind of shocked that North Carolina had absolutely no continuing education requirements for nurses.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So, as kids would say, definitely my bad! Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. We lost my wife's Dad, four years ago, he was in a nursing home and basically died a miserable death. Important point here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. Danny 07:39 Yeah, definitely. So some of our approaches definitely altered based on the availability of what we could get done.

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