Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This review discusses when hospice care for ALS is recommended and when a patient with ALS is eligible for hospice. When Is An ALS Patient Eligible For Hospice Care? The following is an overview of what signs indicate a patient with ALS is ready and eligible for hospice care. What Are The Goals Of Hospice Care for ALS?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 6, 2024

This article will outline tips and strategies to support better hospice documentation when painting the picture of decline. “Painting the picture” is a phrase often used to describe the process of documenting a hospice patient’s condition. I didn’t always understand how to chart for hospice. Denies pain.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Hospice care is a way to help ensure your loved one gets the care they need with activities of daily living, pain management , and more during the final stages of Alzheimer’s. This review discusses what signs indicate a need for hospice care for your loved one with Alzheimer’s. Difficulties With Memory. Mood Changes.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the severity of lung disease progresses to a point at which treatment is no longer effective and the patient’s life expectancy is subsequently limited, then hospice care is an option to alleviate the symptoms and help the patient maintain an optimal quality of life. How Hospice Care Helps Patients With Lung Disease/COPD.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hospice documentation is tedious and time-consuming. I’ve outlined simple tips to help you master the fundamentals of hospice documentation. Why Hospice Documentation Matters. First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Common Barriers to Hospice Documentation.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

It is also important to discuss the possibility of hospice care if one of your parents has Alzheimer’s disease or another terminal illness. Get The Care Your Parents Need for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). As parents age, their ability to carry out what are known as activities of daily living (also called ADLs) declines.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As Mills said, “Evidence shows that age, frailty, chronic disease load, and ADL dependency are predictive of mortality, hospitalization, and total cost.” An understanding of how people express growing frailty and/or difficulty handling ADLs and IALDs. Addressing frailty is essential on many fronts.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. That’s the problem. What are other options? Eric: Yeah.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Occupational therapists work closely with interdisciplinary teams, including hospice and palliative care providers, to ensure that seniors receive comprehensive, compassionate care that aligns with their preferences and values during this challenging phase of life.

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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. . Chrissy: Hospice? Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. Eric: And we’ll get to both of those, but can you describe the time to benefit page? So it predicts actually three outcomes.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Let’s just dig into what the problem is with that renewed focus on quality in hospice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 19, 2024

As a hospice nurse, you understand the importance of accurate, detailed documentation. However, composing hospice narrative notes can be challenging and leave you feeling frustrated. Last year, I was challenged to deliver a 20-minute training session to help hospice nurses compose narrative notes in a way they could implement quickly.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

I mean, whether you’re, you have a background in inpatient rehab or skilled nursing facilities or home health or hospice, or even physicians and physician groups. 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?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Maybe it wasn’t a slip of the tongue there, a lot of thread of hospice in there. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. Home health aide at 25 to 50 bucks an hour is, actually, a very inexpensive, and well-worth input for people who need help with ADLs and the like.

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