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. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Rehabbed to Death.
Home Care Pulse
APRIL 6, 2023
Learn More As managers working in hospice, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and even senior communities, part of our job is to educate our employees in end of life care. Staff will end up suggesting or even pushing IVs, feeding tubes, unnecessary medications, and providing inadequate pain management for patients.
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Hope Hospice
JANUARY 11, 2022
Even under assisted living or full-time care, a person with dementia needs special attention to mealtimes in order to maintain proper nutrition. Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients. By mid-stage, dementia may cause a person to forget to eat or leave them confused about how to use appliances for food preparation.
AT Home Care & Hospice
MARCH 15, 2023
Before feeding a patient or giving them a meal, ensure they sit upright. Whether you see patients in a home setting or an assisted living facility, these tips can help reduce fall risk, prevent bed sores, eliminate choking hazards, and reduce fire hazards. Bed-ridden patients may wish to eat lying down.
Caregiver Support Services
MAY 10, 2023
Understandably, you may not have the financial resources necessary to house and feed more people, so you need to ask them whether they’ll be able to contribute. If you don’t have the finances necessary to handle another house member, this new living arrangement can put everyone in a serious predicament.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed.
GeriPal
JUNE 30, 2022
And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. You’ll have a feeding tube. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University. Really, a smart and caring woman. And she developed dementia in her later years and she had pretty advanced dementia.
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