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Career Spotlight: Fighting for justice for older people and those with dementia for 50+ years

The Nurse Break

This was probably my initiation into my lifelong commitment to person-centred care. Nursing Homes and Perceived Failure In between I worked as an EN in a nursing home before returning to NSW. Nursing Homes provided greater flexibility in rostering than did hospitals. What a reward!

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And people are getting life sentences. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

I mean, I, you know, when I was a fresh nurse, I wasn’t gonna come in there and say, because I had a degree, I knew more than these nursing assistants, who’d worked for 20 years, you know, on a unit. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home. Linda Leekley ( 13:52 ): Right?

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Over the Threshold: Creating Solutions

Chicago Caregiving

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. But what happens when someone living on the street is nearing the end of life? The group focuses on permanent, supportive housing.

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