Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

How to vet care facilities — and make a decision under pressure Fact checked by Catherine Gianaro What happens when an older adult leaves the hospital but still needs care? In 2023, The Joint Commission expanded its certification to independent and assisted living memory care facilities. This often results in poor care.

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The World According to Dr. El

MAY 17, 2022

Over the years, I’ve used the column to explain what psychologists do in long-term care and what they could do if given the chance. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from sitting by the bedsides of elders in the nursing home, it’s that life goes faster than we think it will, and I have other mountains to climb.

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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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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Eric: We’ve talked about transforming care in the community. We have to.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

Specifically stated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will set and raise the bar for a resilient, high-value healthcare system that promotes quality outcomes, safety, equity and accessibility for all individuals, especially for people in historically underserved and under-resourced communities. .

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 15, 2024

Furthermore, repeated, friendly interactions between staff and residents build trust and rapport, making care more personalized and improving the overall quality of life for residents. Renee Kinder, MS, CCC-SLP, RAC-CT, serves as the Executive Vice President of Clinical Services for Broad River Rehab. Have a column idea?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And so, again, that is getting better with increased use of take home doses for people. But nonetheless, the methadone clinic system is entirely separate from the rest of the healthcare system. Or one of the Lancet journals on age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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The World According to Dr. El

MARCH 22, 2022

We spoke about the experiences that inform my thinking about long-term care, and we addressed topics such as the disconnect between mental and physical health, the moral injury and staff burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, and ways of better supporting staff, families and facilities in their efforts to provide quality care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has contracted with Acumen LLC and Abt Associates to develop quality and cost measures for use in the IRF, LTCH, SNF, and HH QRPs and the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI). She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. This shouldn’t have happened.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession.

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The World According to Dr. El

APRIL 19, 2022

The nursing home business has never been easy, but since the pandemic, it’s been vastly more difficult, with facility closures, large numbers of staff members departing, and new recruits hard to come by. CMS mandates Chief Experience Officer position for all LTC homes”. Community rallies to save local nursing home”.

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The World According to Dr. El

JANUARY 11, 2022

Attending to turnover has the potential to improve quality, reduce certain expenditures, and rehabilitate the public’s image of nursing homes. I’d also suggest attending to the emotional tenor of the nursing home. See my 2014 piece, “ The keys to reducing turnover in long-term care.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms.

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

Yet, reducing debt and saving up can be especially difficult for people on a tight budget who are doing everything to get by — make rent or mortgage, buy groceries, pay for healthcare. Set concrete, measurable goals The next step is to set measurable short-, medium-, and long-term financial goals, Furjanic says.

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Chicago Caregiving

JULY 6, 2024

Look at it this way: Less doctor visits, hospital stays, or even the need for nursing home placement can save dividends in the long run. Take care of your health now, for a healthy tomorrow both physically and financially. What are some of the biggest challenges in care affordability that your clients face?

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The World According to Dr. El

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Instead, I took notes and considered how this hospital-heavy analysis might apply to the long-term care industry. Two physicians, one nurse and one psychiatrist/researcher discussed at length how the pandemic has worsened what was already a dysfunctional and understaffed healthcare system. Burnout and moral injury.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The contribution of caregivers collectively to the healthcare system has been shown to run into billions of dollars in terms of unpaid labor every year, where caregivers themselves have to compromise on their financial security. At some point, nursing homes will have to be considered.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Acute care is called acute care for a reason. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

I have been a hospice volunteer for twenty years, most of them in urban nursing homes. Mostly, I felt I didn't have skills to do the right things in a healthcare environment where somebody might get hurt if I messed up. Once in high school as part of a school club, I visited a nursing home where I fed a woman jello.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Healthcare workers believed that they had a good understanding of hospital infection prevention policies.” The pandemic erased that complacency and enhanced education for nurses and infection control in unique ways. Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Recognize the Scope of Care Needs The first step in balancing caregiving responsibilities with personal needs is to understand the full scope of your parents’ care needs. This involves assessing their physical health, cognitive abilities, and emotional state.

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Hearts for Home Care

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As Baby Boomers continue to age and the population of older adults needing long-term care increases, the need for caregivers will continue to increase as well. I am advocating because our healthcare system is compromised. There are plenty of people worse off than me that can’t get home care, which is unacceptable.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 9, 2021

First: Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Refinement of Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)/Nursing Facility (NF), and Home Health (HH) Function Measures. The contract number is 75FCMC18D0015, Task Order 75FCMC19F0003.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2023

Infusion (IV) nurses form a crucial part of every healthcare team. IV Nurses Day is celebrated every January 25 to recognize the work IV nurses do each day and also to thank them for their advocacy and devotion to the lifelong learning that is so crucial in their specialty.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

What this means for home care: The industry is reaching new heights after earning an increased level of appreciation in the healthcare space due to the pandemic. For the home care industry, it has only strengthened our focus on efforts to provide quality care and keep older Americans in their homes and safe.”.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 13, 2023

I, one of the ways I like to kind of talk about this and, and, and my passion is to kind of tell a story of when I was a kid actually growing up, you mentioned that I grew up, my dad was running nursing homes as a kid. And so I would spend so much time at these different nursing homes. We want to make a difference.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Eric: And how is assisted living community different than a nursing home? One is they’re not licensed as a nursing home, and they’re not federally regulated. Biggest differences, not licensed as a nursing home, don’t have to have nurses.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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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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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 19, 2023

This was in the 80s, before Long-Term Care (LTC) Standards were anywhere near what they are now. It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” Topping the list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. We also touch briefly on topics discussed in prior podcasts such as loneliness and federal responses to the pandemic in relation to long-term care.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Health care providers can still set their own internal COVID vaccine requirements, as they do with those for other diseases, according to Dr. Cameron Muir, chief medical officer at the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). This could include hospices’ referral partners.

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