GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. They have so many more insights using technology from telehealth and telemedicine that’s feeding into that mobile device, which is so powerful for them.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Sue Britton was the first nurse hired on that palliative care unit. Alex 01:08 And we’re delighted to welcome Sue Britton, who was the first nurse in the very first palliative care unit in Quebec at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1975. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. She had a respiratory arrest, and the nurse was really distraught.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We’ll have a link to it on our show Notes Applying Trauma Informed Approach to Home Visits, which I also love because it makes sense, like in other homes that people have like nursing homes which I think it’s a mandate to provide trauma informed care in nursing homes per cms.

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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 Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

One of the most common frustrations hospice nurses have is related to how long it takes to complete hospice documentation. doctor, hospital, nursing home) are added to the electronic medical record. Honestly, I’ve worked for an agency that had admission nurses while others did not. Hospice Admission Tips.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision. 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.

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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 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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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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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. Back then the word was that if you worked in community or home based care that you weren’t really making use of all your nursing skills. Linda Leekley ( 01:36 ): Sure, absolutely.

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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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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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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. I am a nurse and I have seen a lot of sickness and a lot of dying. 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. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life.

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