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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. Eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, mobility, and toileting are crucial for maintaining health and independence.

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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

These activities, commonly known as activities of daily living (ADLs), include the following: bathing and showering, dressing, eating (not including chewing or swallowing), toileting (using the restroom), ambulation (help with mobility and transportation), and grooming (assistance with personal hygiene).

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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

Please read full disclosure for more information. You’re like the detective gathering all the clues ( information ) from the past several months to support changes in the patient’s condition. You can also use the information from your admission and previous interdisciplinary group (IDG) meetings to help you document.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

Please read full disclosur e for more information. As a hospice nurse, you should: Document at the bedside : First to ensure accuracy then to make sure the team has the information they need to care for the patient. ( Chart all calls: Phone calls and triage notes inform the team. This post may contain affiliate links.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So yes, it’s imperfect and we recognize that, and we’re always clinically making decisions that are based on imperfect information. Eric: Well, let me push you on that. .”

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

We also discuss Scott’s recently published paper in JAGS that showed that older men with lower urinary tract symptoms have increased risk of developing mobility and activities of daily living (ADL) limitations, perhaps due to greater frailty phenotype. . I appreciate that information. Lots of information in there. Transcript.

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

Home Care Pulse

Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs? So then we know, do we have to target that specific caregiver to give her more education, her skill, you know, how is she bathing this client? Are they safe?