Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JANUARY 16, 2025

For many individuals we serve who present with chronic, progressive and/or neurological conditions, this is what they face daily. Fortunately, in post-acute care, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) steps in to close the gap, ensuring residents’ voices are not just heard but understood. We all have, right?

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Long-term care Ventilator End-of-life care Presentation 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Eric 27:31 They are unrepresented, they’re in the ICU on a ventilator. Should we keep them on the ventilator? They have one.

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Healthcare proxy Ventilator Social worker Geriatrics 228

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl. Karl: Thanks for having me.

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Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 301

The Nurse Break

APRIL 20, 2022

Joel was diagnosed with a catastrophic brain injury and after 2 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, he was moved in a comatose state to the same Children’s ward where I had worked as an RN, 10 years previously. Our focus at present is for those affected by chronic stroke – but we recognise that PSE will go on to help so many others.

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2014 Ventilator Article Registered Nurse 98

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? Sean: I did, I did.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 154

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: First is Darrell Owens, who’s Associate Medical Director of Palliative Care at the University of Washington Northwest Campus. Alex: And second is Jim Wright, who is medical director of two long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in Richmond, Virginia: Our Lady of Hope and Westminster Canterbury.

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Long-term care 2020 Grief Medical director 319