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What You Need to Know About Parkinson’s and In-Home Care

Comfort Home Care

In this article, we share vital information about Parkinson’s Disease, the role in-home care can have in managing its challenges, and the qualities to seek in an in-home care provider. Living with Parkinson’s Disease presents numerous challenges, but you don’t have to face them alone.

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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. Requires assistance with ADLs. Disease-Specific Declines: Each condition presents unique markers of decline. However, the second example has more details demonstrating how the patient is declining.

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Beyond compensation: How home care agencies can add value for caregivers

AlayaCare

As we’ve explored in previous articles , 15 percent of U.S. A recent Home Health Care News article detailed how 18 states started the year with higher minimum wages than in 2018 , with places like California and Washington D.C. ADLs and electronic charting are also simple and non-invasive.

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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG Top Time Wasters & How to Avoid Them. Simply put, you must compare the present to the past. ADLS : dependent in all ADLs; frequently agitated; occasionally delusional. Scales : FAST 7B was 7A, PPS-30% was 40% ADLs MID UPPER ARM CIRCUMFERENCE: 21 was 23.

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The 5 Most Important Metrics You Need to Audit Your Agency’s Training Program

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction. Article Contents: Your Program Offers at Least 8 of these Basic Training Topics. Present certification certificates to congratulate and commemorate your caregivers for completed trainings . Print Article. – Your Program Offers at Least 8 of these Basic Training Topics.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Eric: I felt that reading the article.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. And to make matters worse, you might not always be present when they occur. Suggested Article: Hospice IDG: Top Time Wasters and How to Avoid Them. Hospice Charting Fundamentals. Let’s begin with the basics. Not documenting changes.