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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Transcript.

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Realizing a Dream: How I Earned My Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Nurse.com

Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.