Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. So while paying your employees more definitely impacts retention, the data shows that your caregivers are still looking for more than just pay.

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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. My immediate thought was that while we do answer those questions in an episode here on the podcast. Important point here. And we do get those once in a while.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

And I definitely don’t sing as well as him. So we definitely don’t want to use this concept to warp it, to inappropriately justify non treatment or abandonment or letting off the hook a system that isn’t great always at meeting people’s needs because this is a really vulnerable patient population.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Julie: I definitely feel like that because unfortunately, now I’m… And this is what I’m working on now is it’s really hard not to get focused on numbers and views and if someone’s going to like it, and now I have a book that I’m trying to sell, which I hate that feeling- Eric: You’ve got a brand.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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