Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, these activities of daily living ( known as ADLs ) may become more challenging even if the patient is able to move around on their own. Hospice care is primarily for patients who have a life expectancy of six months or less. Otherwise, palliative care may be a more preferable solution.

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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. Where Is The Line Drawn?

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 19, 2022

Over half of all home care agencies currently offer their caregivers training in the following 8 topics: personal care (ADLs), client safety, infection control basics, employee safety, Coronavirus, client rights, communications and other soft skills, diseases and chronic conditions. 7 popular topics are hitting the charts.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sei Lee, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. It predicts mortality, it predicts time to walking disability, so time until someone can’t walk across a room, and time to ADL disability. Sei: Howdy.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 24, 2022

An Associate Professor of Nursing, and Gerontology Nursing Specialist with 19 years’ experience across oncology, palliative care, emergency, and more, Kasia balances her research in this area with interests in skiing and kung fu. There’s also a misconception about providing ‘basic care’ for older people. Meet Dr Kasia Bail!

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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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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Stay current by ensuring you’re training your employees on the top 5 topics agencies are prioritizing: Personal care (ADLS) . Not only do specialized training programs decrease the chance of 90-day turnover , they also enable your staff to provide the quality of care your clients are looking for. Palliative care 43% .

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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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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

83% of all home care providers now offer specialized training courses, understanding they strengthen your employer brand , attract long-term caregivers, and deliver what the caregiving demographic is expecting. You have less than 12 weeks to equip your caregivers with the skills they need to be convinced that they can handle the job.

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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. Alex: I think there’s an analogy here to palliative care and the explosive growth of palliative care in US hospitals.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The net of it is that the folks that are running hospice and palliative care, they have so much on their plate regulatory-wise. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. It’s an administrative burden.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Eric: What excites me about the med students is when I was a med student, I never heard of ADLs or IDLs and we just gave a talk to first or second year of med students. And they give off so much energy for me and make me feel so good. There just aren’t enough of them. There aren’t enough of them. I was like, holy smokes.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. However, different programs take different attitudes towards requirements for family members, enlisting them in care, training them. Is there something like that for a hospital-at-home?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. The post Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: Good luck with the power out there. Margot: Thank you. Eric: Thanks to all of our listeners. Have a great night.

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