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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

The concept of death literacy comes from a Lancet Commission report in February 2022. It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. Hospice News spoke with Connelly about the importance of death literacy and how to pursue it.

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Learning from women’s sport, an open goal for healthcare workplaces?

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Following England’s Lionesses European Cup win in 2022, there was a financial boost from the UK government to drive opportunity for equal time for girls and boys to participate in sport [1]. Thirty-two countries have a national female football team competing for the top spot with more prime-time TV coverage in the UK and USA than before.

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The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

According to the 2022 HCP Benchmarking Report, agencies are providing training in at least 10 of the following basic topics: If you’d like to train your caregivers to stand out beyond the industry’s necessary skillset, consider adding a few of the most popular training topics among caregivers and clients alike. Specialty care courses .

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Power of Purees

Chicago Caregiving

Following his award-winning 2021, Ortega entered the Puree with a Purpose in 2022 with a new menu: Chateaubriand with mushroom bordelaise, rosemary parmesan polenta, red and gold beets, and carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. “Don’t forget that we eat with our eyes,” says Michael Troehler, executive chef at Lake Forest Place.

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Palace of Care – A difficult post to write

Palliverse

I have finally completed it today, and it serves as a sneak preview chapter for my upcoming book Bedsides Lessons which will be available for purchase on Amazon Kindle on 09 June 2022. Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Photo by Sooz.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

JAMA 2022 (a reply to the above). But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.” Get the hospice referral.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

We used a large online survey panel, the Ipsos Knowledge Panel, and we presented older adults with two vignettes. And after each vignette, we presented seven rationales that a trusted clinician could use to explain why the person should stop taking that medicine. ” Ariel: Exactly. Liz, why’d you decide to do this?