Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

Yeah, definitely. Um, and just wrote about how she was progressing with those symptoms from being diagnosed by her family doctor, with her daughter, her who was her primary caregiver, Shelby at her side, needing home care to then needing home health and placement in a memory care in an assisted living facility to needing hospice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Definitely not-. Eric: Yeah, this is definitely… If you grew up in the ’80s, this is the slow dancing song. Because I think a lot of times when someone develops significant disabilities, they need to either move into an assisted living home or get in-home supportive services. Eric: 1982. Here we go.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. Joan: And it really came from a resident who I worked with whose family, their goal was to get him back to his home environment, which was an ALF; an assisted living facility.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. I don’t know if that’s true, but I just wanted to say that if there is this concern, this builds on what Eric was saying, this trend of equity buying hospices, buying assisted living facilities. Alex: Nursing homes.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. And you cannot be in a nursing home. Not the skilled. The intermediary care. Long-term care. Malaz: Yeah. For the long term.

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Home Care Pulse

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And that’s something we’ve definitely learned along my journey as an, an entrepreneur, a home care owner, a leader. Like if there was someone at a grocery store or at assisted living community, how to tell them about job opportunities, how to kind of recruit them into your agency. It’s being a great leader.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University. Really, a smart and caring woman.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

The folks who became homeless late in life became chronically homeless, because chronic homelessness is by definition being homeless for more than a year, more or less, and having a disabled condition. A lot of them need what we would call in the middle class world assisted living, right? So really interesting.

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