Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

What happens during hospice care? This person coordinates with the hospice team. Your healthcare providers usually visit a few times a week. You and your caregiver can also call the hospice team 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In most cases, your primary caregiver is a family member or friend.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. What’s the difference between end-of-life doula and a hospice volunteer?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Healthcare disparities are inequalities that exist when members of certain populations do not benefit from the same healthcare as other groups. This is not only a healthcare issue, but a moral one. Healthcare disparities impact not only individuals victimized by them, but also their families, their communities, and the nation.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JULY 31, 2022

As a hospice volunteer in Detroit, Michigan nursing homes, I viewed dementia as a fluttering bee. Spending time with them and getting to know them, their temperaments, their personalities, their likes and dislikes greatly impact caregivers' abilities to manage them in healthcare settings. Visit Frances Shani Parker's Website.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The ability to empathize is especially important in healthcare professions where biases can contribute to healthcare disparities. Healthcare providers must be able to better recognize situations where they can offer empathy in addition to problem solving. Her blog is Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog.

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Hope Hospice

MAY 18, 2022

I knew healthcare. The last patient I saw as a therapist inspired me to become a hospice volunteer. My gifts have been woven into the fabric that is Hope. . I came to Hope after a 30-plus-year career as a physical therapist. I had worked side-by-side with some of the most gifted clinicians in the industry.

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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

JUNE 6, 2024

Elizabeth Hart, MD Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice AAHPM reached out to the 2024 Visionaries to gain insight into what motivated them to pursue leadership positions and what they find more fulfilling in their experiences. Patients are often my most treasured teachers. More formal mentors are too many to name.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Healing the spirit has often been associated positively in healthcare by patients and healthcare providers. Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a volunteer, have you ever thought that you didn't choose volunteer service, but that it chose you? I have been a hospice volunteer for twenty years, most of them in urban nursing homes. I knew he couldn't navigate the healthcare system alone. But I can remember when I dreaded being around sick people.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It was my experience as a hospice volunteer that maybe leave the corporate world and go to nursing school and ultimately become a palliative care nurse practitioner. But before I became a nurse I had a long career at Procter & Gamble in brand management and I worked on the Covergirl and Max Factor business. I think that’s-.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Spirituality has often been associated positively in healthcare by most patients. Healthcare providers should be sensitive to this when they make healthcare decisions impacting patients and their families. They should provide opportunities for them to share their religious and spiritual beliefs and offer support when possible.

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NHPCO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 1990, he founded the Hospice of Hope in Maysville, Kentucky and soon after, led a turnaround for Housecall Medical Resources, a publicly traded company with operations in five states. Norman then served as Founder and President and CEO for Caris HealthCare before becoming a Managing Partner and Executive Board Member.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Healthcare worker have to be sensitive to patients' spirituality and religious beliefs regarding death journeys. As a hospice volunteer, I noticed that many patients held strong beliefs about miracles that were important to them when making decisions about their health care. What about you? Do you believe in miracles?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many people, even some who work in healthcare, believe that death is always something to dread. Hoping to inspire a conversation about facing death, he let photographer Joshua Bright take pictures of his last days on Earth at home in hospice care. Are they right? Is death as bad as many people imagine it will be?

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Healthcare workers wearing full-body protection suits seem sinister, surreal, surprising in a place known as home. © Frances Shani Parker Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Research shows that older adult sexuality is usually only discussed in healthcare settings when patients initiate the discussions. More information initiated by healthcare providers would keep older adults better informed about evolving sexuality issues that have changed through the years.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JUNE 13, 2021

Having worked previously within the healthcare system has exposed me to the assistance that comes with caregiving. In addition, having been rooted in human sensitivity has provided me with a foundation to complement the needs of the healthcare person. I did contract some part-time assistance with homecare nursing for the short term.

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