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Home Health Care vs. Home Care: What’s the Difference

Traditions Health

Educational resources Your home health care provider can help you and your caregiver learn how to manage your condition. Personalized care in familiar surroungs You’ll receive care tailored to your needs in a comfortable environment. This includes tips and advice about nutrition, medication management and safety.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not.

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Why not try one of these jobs for nursing students?

The Nurse Break

AIN/PCA – Assistant in Nursing / Personal Care Assistant. Often working in Aged Care, the role of a PCA primarily revolves around attending to personal hygiene needs and activities of daily living of clients and residents. Many of the following titles and roles are interchangeable and employer dependant.

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

GeriPal

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! And I think that was partly. She put her back out.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Those who elect Hospice care are no longer seeking curative treatment, and do not wish to go to endless appointments. Instead they choose to receive compassionate care in their own home. Whether home is a private residence, a long term facility, a personal care home etc, the Hospice team travels to the patient.