Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

At nursing home mealtimes, I served as a hospice volunteer at several Detroit, Michigan nursing homes for many years. Petra was not a very independent eater, but I knew she was physically capable of feeding herself by any means necessary. What food?" My assigned hospice residents were always my primary concern.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I have had many occasions as an educator to implement and consult on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. For example, after students learn how to write letters at school, service-learning could include writing letters to nursing home residents who would benefit from receiving them.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Brought to mind the neglect and warehouse style nursing home home shabbiness of les hospices. That’s what his friends said, which means, you know, not possible here. The term hospice among the Quebec Francophones brought the. Les hospice in France. Alex 16:05 Oh, interesting.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: And by the way, I should mention that some of the work that’s been done in the past on patients with dementia in the hospital, it’s been based on Emily Finlayson’s work looking at surgery, but really looking only at nursing home patients. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s why falls are the most common cause of nursing home placement. You might also like: Assisting With Personal Hygiene > Seniors and Hot-Weather Safety > Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients > The post Fall Prevention appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Do not move your shoulders or feet.

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 21, 2023

Home health care Home health care provides the support needed to help you get and stay healthy.

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Death and Dying Chronicles

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Hospice staff refused to feed the person who was no longer able to safely swallow. That did it… There once was an elderly woman, in her 80’s, suffering from dementia and currently a flu like illness that had been going around the nursing home. Hospice staff gave the person medication. That did it. That did it. That did it.

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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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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Myth 4: Hospice Care Hastens Death A common misconception is that hospice care hastens death by withholding life-sustaining treatments such as IV fluids, feeding tubes, or resuscitation efforts. This broad scope allows many patients and families to access the compassionate care they need, no matter what condition they are facing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. I think it’s around one in 12 nursing home patients But it’s a lot.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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. So if she stayed in a hospital or nursing home, we couldn't see her.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

doctor, hospital, nursing home) are added to the electronic medical record. Foleys/Tubes -Does the patient have any tubes such as feeding tubes, CADD pumps, or Foley catheters. If the patient is on tube feedings, you will want to verify that they have feeding supplies available. CALL FIRST!!!

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