Seasons Hospice

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Hospice Care For Everyone Hospice care is a specialized form of healthcare that focuses on providing support and comfort to individuals facing life-limiting illnesses. The benefits of hospice care extend not only to patients facing life-limiting illnesses but also to their families and the healthcare system as a whole.

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Community Home Health Care

JUNE 15, 2023

Maintain Regular Healthcare: Regular healthcare is crucial for seniors aging in place. Encourage routine check-ups with healthcare providers to monitor overall health and manage any chronic conditions. Engaging with others fosters a sense of belonging and overall well-being.

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Comfort Home Care

AUGUST 30, 2022

A personal care assistant, or PCA, helps the elderly, those with disabilities, and those recovering from an illness or accident with the activities of daily living, or ADLs. Personal Care Assistant. A PCA may also help with light housekeeping tasks, meal preparation and other basic needs. Certified Nursing Assistant.

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Comfort Home Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

No two patients are alike – and a one-size-fits-all healthcare solution doesn’t exist either. In most home-health care cases, clients require some type of assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs). The first step to finding the best solution for you and your loved one is to identify your specific needs.

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Comfort Home Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults. By providing assistance with the activities of daily living (ADLs), older adults can feel safe and secure in their homes. 1: Maintaining Connection & Activity. When living at home alone, seniors can become isolated. 4: Maintaining Independence.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Understanding Occupational Therapy Occupational therapy (OT) is a holistic healthcare profession that focuses on helping individuals of all ages achieve and maintain their highest level of independence and well-being. OT professionals collaborate with other healthcare providers to ensure a coordinated approach to recovery.

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Comfort Home Care

MAY 5, 2023

These conditions affect their quality of life and their willingness and/or ability to perform the activities of daily living (ADLs). Anxiety, depression, and dementia are the most common mental health conditions among seniors, especially those living alone or without caregivers.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Lynn: If they need to go somewhere and receive ADL support and supportive care at the same time, there’s no mechanism to pay for that. This is so important to patients, so important to their healthcare, so important to their quality of life.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Katie: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

What this means for home care: The industry is reaching new heights after earning an increased level of appreciation in the healthcare space due to the pandemic. It is our hope that the increased awareness emerging from the global crisis will create momentum for policymakers across the country to address these faults in our healthcare system.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

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. . Sounds like everybody didn’t have mobility and ADL issues from the start.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It predicts mortality, it predicts time to walking disability, so time until someone can’t walk across a room, and time to ADL disability. The post New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 24, 2022

I am passionate about providing excellent healthcare to older people while they are in acute care hospitals, and that is where my clinical and research focus align. We have an amazing healthcare system, and benefit from advances in medical science and public health and hygiene, and so now we live longer lives.

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The Productive Home Health Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Home health aides – also known as HHA , (who I’ve named as the home health angels) who works very very closely with the patient to complete their ADLs, demonstrate tasks, and so much more. To ensure that each of our patients can achieve and maintain the highest level of health, function, and independence.

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AlayaCare

JULY 25, 2022

On three recent episodes of Home Health 360 , AlayaCare’s podcast offering global perspectives on home healthcare, hosts Jeff Howell and Erin Vallier spoke with industry leaders about how they leverage novel tools and implement programs to increase engagement across entire client’s entire circle of care. And perhaps some new perspectives.

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AlayaCare

JULY 18, 2022

On three recent episodes of Home Health 360 , AlayaCare’s podcast offering global perspectives on home healthcare hosts Jeff Howell and Erin Vallier spoke with industry leaders about how they leverage novel tools and implement programs to increase engagement across entire clients’ entire circle of care. And perhaps some new perspectives.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

Reduce overall healthcare spending by training your caregivers to prevent readmissions. According to the National Caregiver Trend Report from myCNAjobs, 73% of employees enter the caregiving profession as a steppingstone to gain the skills needed to pursue a career in nursing or healthcare.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Home assessments should move well beyond home type, kitchen set-up, hallway width, bedroom and ADL analysis and shift into our patients’ “real world” in whatever sense neighborhoods and community are important to them. Taking our clinical practice beyond, “Are you safe for home?” to “Are you safe for return to your fully integrated community?”

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 2, 2022

Value-based payments vs. fee-for-service Linking reimbursement rates to outcomes with value-based payments is old news in the healthcare industry. And measuring these outcomes goes well beyond checking off an ADL list. Home care leaders know the impact companionship, maintaining independence, and engaging in hobbies have on clients.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 3, 2022

Linking reimbursement rates to outcomes with value-based payments is old news in the healthcare industry. On Home Health 360 , AlayaCare’s podcast offering global perspectives on home healthcare, host Jeff Howell has explored how leading home care organizations deliver and measure better outcomes for their clients.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. What we found was Amedisys had 15% of their Medicare claims that were at risk of denial because the hospice CTI was missing one of those key data elements that we talked about earlier.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in the post-acute care space, she’s worked with many top regional healthcare and home care facilities in Texas, as well as some of the best known agencies nationwide. Michelle has dedicated her career to improving the value of home care across the care continuum. Are they safe? How can we support you?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

My past boss, Seth Landefeld, wrote a Seminole paper on this back in 1996 in the New England Journal, showing that ACE units improved things like ADLs at discharge, discharged to long-term institutions. So before we get into that, ACE units have been around for over 25 years.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. But I would ask you, why is everyone so obsessed with pulling money out of the healthcare system for a population that is mostly older people of color … Eric: Because it’s not a drug.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How can we take our healthcare system, and really break it, and do it better for older adults who may not fit within, or may not have the conveniences of going into the clinic, or going to the hospital, all these things that we think about. But let me ask, why, personally, did you get interested in this?

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