Geriatrics Hospice Vital signs 
Hospice News
AUGUST 19, 2024
New Jersey-headquartered BoldAge emerged last year, established by a group of former hospice and home health leaders. That empathy is already in every pace employee that I’ve met in all of our centers so far, just like in hospice. So we are palliative care, and palliative care is not just the next step before hospice.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. Of course, the doctors know they’re in simulation, they signed up for it.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. And you should be able to give it in your hospice unit, like we can in our intensive palliative care unit. Janet: Oh.
GeriPal
JULY 7, 2022
And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting? And attention to pain builds pain. Do you have pain anywhere?” Ivan Ilyich’s character was a jerk.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Sarah 03:08 Yeah, you know, when I went into my geriatric fellowship or even during residency, I think that I thought that I was going to be interested in dementia and that maybe that would be my line of focus. Orthostatic vital signs I think can be appropriate. Alex 07:27 Are there professional society recommendations or U.S.
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