Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Many hospice providers are already doing it, but it’s hard to make them run when you’re eating costs and losing money on roughly 80% of your patients.” “We do need to recognize that things that we didn’t understand were palliative care could be.

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Hospice News

MAY 11, 2023

“In March, we felt a little bit of a pop out of the first year coming into 2023 [through] some of our large recruitment platforms. It’s why we’re so committed to this preferred payor strategy, because I think long term we’re going to continue to struggle with inflation eating up any current or steady [hiring] rate we have.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. We target their diuretics to this, and then they just go home and they eat something completely different.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2024

For example, almost everyone wasn’t hungry, wasn’t eating and drinking, and they were sleeping a lot of the time. So they reached out to me, and because I’m into them, I said, “Yeah, let’s partner.” Can you expound on that a little bit? What are some of the ways that our bodies take care of us?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I was in the acute care hospital and realized there’s this whole other vast world out there that wasn’t really tapped into. The way I got there was by being part of an Accountable Care Organization [ACO] and the ecosystem that was out there. I was considering some of the macroeconomic trends that are out there right now.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Their growing prominence is leading more hospices to see innovative partnerships with upstream providers as well as building out their own programs. “I Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reported.

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Pallimed

MARCH 21, 2022

by Drew Rosielle ( @drosielle ) I am proposing we do away with equianalgesic table (EAT) as a tool to inform clinical decisions about opioid rotations/conversions. Fundamentally, EATs create too many problems, and there are simpler and safer ways to teach clinicians how to convert between different opioids.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Other flexibilities will be phased out, such as those that permitted the use of telehealth to fulfill requirements typically done in person, according to a recent CMS report. Other PHE issues eating away at hospice sustainability in year four. The labor issues have had a significant adverse impact on hospices’ finances and operations.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

It’s understanding that a large majority of abuse victims are not going to speak out. But we have to really unravel these deep-rooted societal taboos about speaking out and removing judgment on the victim. They may be uncomfortable talking about it with their provider care team.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As Dexter pointed out earlier, I think it’s interesting that hospice organizations seem to just not win, right? By the way, we were eating it anyway. ” We started to build out a feature that we call Note Assist. This seems to go in waves. Your GIP length of stay is too short, your GIP length of stay is too long.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 28, 2023

She’s now known as the Diabetes NP (check out the Diabetes NP YouTube videos ) and helps patients and nurses learn as much as possible about diabetes. Then maybe they can go for a walk or incorporate some kind of movement after eating and check their blood sugar again. “Make it your business to know those.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 26, 2023

Others have designed a “pay as you go” model as they build out their palliative care businesses. Being an independent [palliative care company], we have to eat our own dog food. Some of those employers have folded wages for palliative care staff into the budgets of their hospice programs, for example.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We also learn that the term stakeholder , so common in research, should be avoided for its early usage as White colonialists staked out land taken from Native American peoples. For me, with the research that I’m currently conducting, when I started out, I used the term African Americans. African American?

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Pallimed

MAY 2, 2022

In my last post I outlined why I think equianalgesic tables (EATs) are broken and proposed we collectively move instead to using Conversion Tables (CTs) when teaching others how to switch opioids. You want to put them on IV hydromorphone: -- Classic EAT: divide by 20 to get 2 mg of IV hydromorphone -- DOC2 Table: divide by 12.5

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 4, 2022

9 tips to keep your loved one eating well with dementia. When you think about side effects of dementia, eating probably isn’t one of the first issues to come to mind. Over time, dementia may cause changes in food habits and preferences, making eating more difficult. Common eating issues with dementia.

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 19, 2023

The art of pureed food — and other food modifications — to meet special dietary needs Eating should be a pleasure, but for some people this basic necessity becomes a chore. We know that people with dementia are restless and don’t like to sit down, so they can eat while they are mobile,” Brown says. Food should be appealing.”

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Donna Cardillo, The Inspiration Nurse

APRIL 27, 2023

I recently stayed in a hotel out of state the night before a speaking engagement. I decided to walk to a local market to buy some food rather than go out to eat. It was raining lightly, but enough to need an umbrella. Read More » The post Witnessing Homelessness: A Story of Compassion and Gratitude.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 6, 2023

So scientists see clear benefit in figuring out how the brains of some people are more resilient to conventional aging pathways. Although SuperAgers don’t necessarily follow one pattern of eating, researchers are zeroing in on lifestyle behaviors, such as dietary patterns, to gain valuable insights.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So people, especially those living alone who are still managing insulin, they might be forget a dose or then they take a dose and they forget to eat. But you send somebody home with this device and say, “Scan it before you eat, scan it after you eat. Maybe if I eat half a sandwich, my blood sugar won’t go over 200.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Eric Note : For more reading on this subject, check out these links: Shunichi Nakagawa’s Twitter account Miscommunication in Cancer Care—Do You Hear What I Hear? We’ll do a shout-out. Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more? What else? The retina is reattached.” ” And my dad said, “Great.

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Accessible Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

While diabetics don’t have to cut out sugar completely, they must limit their sugar intake. Other elements diabetics have to consider when eating are carbohydrates and fiber. To help you out, here are a few fun diabetic baking recipes you can try. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan, spreading it out evenly.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

MAY 26, 2022

Many of the tips to improve mental health can be something you’ve heard before or that maybe seems obvious once said out loud, but that shouldn’t stop you or your loved ones from trying it out. We often don’t even realize how what we’re eating is affecting us. Even if one thing doesn’t help, something else might.

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Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

Make sure you know the signs of a senior struggling with an eating disorder. Changes in an older adult’s weight and eating habits are normal as they age. Dental problems, medication side effects, less physical activity as a result of mobility issues, as well as other factors need to be explored and either addressed or ruled out.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Katie: I feel like, to this point, it’s been just figure it out then. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. So, one out of 10?

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

A few are let out early on compassionate release. Shout out to the UC Berkeley-USCF Joint Medical Program. So this, really, this space grew out of the HIV epidemic. And the research isn’t really out there yet to understand exactly why the population is getting older. It was 13 out of 30. Michele: Yeah.

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Elaine Mansfield

APRIL 11, 2023

Until last week, she loved to eat and stroll around the yard by herself, but her favorite was a family hike. It was hard to tell since she slept deeply with soft snores, but when a car pulled in the driveway she woke up and looked out the window. She rarely barked unless she wanted in or out. Willow was almost 14 this spring.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 28, 2024

You might want to eat healthier, take a walk after work , or remember to do a particular chore. What would it look like, and how would it help you balance out the demands you currently have? Maybe you want to start slow, sit on a couch, or get out your old yoga mat and stretch out for five minutes.

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Executive Care

MARCH 22, 2022

First, to receive this care, you have to move out of your house. Many seniors love their homes and don’t want to move out. Just because you don’t want a roommate or to eat all your meals in a shared dining hall doesn’t mean you want to be alone all the time. Many residents are healthy, safe, and happy in these facilities.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

During a recent visit with her patient, Dorothy Bishop, Peyton was asked if eating grapefruit would interfere with her medications. They also provide rides to food banks and pharmacies, pass out gas and grocery cards, figure out what to do if the electricity or water’s been cut off, and even handle a snake in the house.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Nurses work hard and sometimes eat and sleep poorly and fail to exercise, so this isn’t something you can ignore. It’s also no secret that nurses eat poorly when working long shifts without meal breaks. As such, preparing healthy meals quickly goes out the window. Night shiftwork is associated with increased risk.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

But again, I think you may get a lot more out of this if you read those articles first. I mean, so she actually kept calling out, like, I’m fine with dying. And I said, no, no, you don’t need to find out where the bleeding is, because we wouldn’t do anything about it, and they won’t listen.

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Solace

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Cann dedicated her book “Dying to Eat” to her mother who died in 1997, explaining that “food was her language of love” and her inspiration. “I Meals are … the story we want to tell with food,” Cann writes, explaining that “eating is not only a sensory experience but a shared social and ritual space.”. Food is a gift’.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful. And in that ruling, it basically laid out the requirement that some form of assisted dying or a pathway for that needed to be carved out in some circumstances. So Bill mentioned 2021, the 2022 numbers came out, and I’ll get to what those are in just a second.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 6, 2025

We’re out of shape, so we resolve to get back into shape. We’ve been undisciplined with our eating and want to dial in our diet and nutrition. Room for Improvement or Change Resolutions are usually born from a place of wanting or needing change or improvement. How do you feel about your relationships with your colleagues ?

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 3, 2022

There are so many issues that compound this: shift work, supervising students, accepting accountability, being independent in decision making, having to work in teams (for those isolationists out there…), coping with the unexpected and so on. Email, call, and reach out to the educators and support nurses. Eating Healthy.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Older adults prioritize healthy eating on a budget, as they adjust to inflation reality. Yet, people have to keep eating, and nutrition is crucial for older adults. The biggest change for Waxman is when she dines out with her friends. Inflation has soared in recent months, hovering around 9.1%. We’re looking for value.

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The Nurse Break

AUGUST 10, 2022

All is going well, he sends me some pictures of him kayaking at various places, so it looks like the profile info checks out. We had a few phone conversations, he’s funny (very high on my list of must haves) and intelligent (also on my wish list) so when he asked me out on an actual date, I was excited and of course said yes.

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