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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Assisted living, I can’t even say the word.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

In this article, we will delve into the realm of long-term care insurance and focus on the coverage it provides for in-home care or home health aides.

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2023 Leader in Training Award-Winners

Home Care Pulse

2023 Leader in Training Award Winners 4 U Home Health Care 6EMS, LLC A 1 Home Health Care LLC A Better Care Option A Caring Touch Home Health & Hospice A Heavenly Hand Home Healthcare, Inc. Avila Home Care Bay Nursing, Inc. Utilize HCP Training for at least 3 months.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Eric: That’s why I love reading your articles, always so deep in science. Eric: And when do we expect that article to come out? Alex: Nursing homes. Attendee 18: Teaching researchers the basic sciences of research, I think is a weak part of the training. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: BlackRock.

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Nursing the Nation and the World

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Hospitals are crucial, of course, but there's more to nursing than units like the ED, the ICU, med-surg, and telemetry. Nurses nurse the nation in schools, dialysis centers, assisted living, nursing homes, home health, hospice, and public health.

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