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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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3 Strategies for Hospice GIP Compliance

Hospice News

GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss. Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said. In addition to these routine MAC audits, the U.S.

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Playwright, Foundation Teaching Hospice Through Theater

Hospice News

Accord has staged other performances at nursing homes and senior living facilities, and in school buildings and other community spaces that have enough room for the actors and audience. When you have a new group [of employees] come in, you can present this because it creates conversation,” she said.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

In fact, for some individuals the dementia is a gift, with the loss of memory for what might have upset you 20 minutes ago, and so we see people who come in and they are presented with TimeSlips’ engagement activity, or some other kind of arts activity, or a conversation with Ab, and somehow what had been distressing them has faded away.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. Brought to mind the neglect and warehouse style nursing home home shabbiness of les hospices. Is that how we presented ourselves? Whats in a name?

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Caregiving System Navigation: 19 Systems

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

I then presented about these systems to probably 300 individuals. My presentation ended with the introduction of the 18th system: The family caregiver. Keeping a safe home for my parents that they liked was a huge challenge. We may struggle to manage care at home, whether in the carees home or our home.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.