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

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. And Medicaid doesn’t pay enough to pay for long-term care. Ruth: People, society, those that need nursing home care, need to speak up and say, “This isn’t right.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

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. When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Michelle Cone ( 03:28 ): So, you know, at its most basic level, it really allows home care agencies to monitor and promote the quality of care that they provide to their clients with actual quantitative data. And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there.