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6 ways your home care staff can increase caregiver retention

AlayaCare

How to retain caregivers continues to be the main question agencies are asking as they shift their focus to growth in 2022. Many home care agencies are adapting to meet the needs of their caregivers to improve caregiver satisfaction. How can I increase my caregiver retention? 6 ways to retain home care caregivers.

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What Training Managers, Hospice, & Healthcare Facilities Miss about End of Life Care

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction Article Contents: For Training Managers, Hospice & Healthcare Facilities Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management.

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Caregiving Best Practices: Get Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series. Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation.

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Caregiver Mistakes: Not Having Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series. Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation.

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Top Family Caregiver Mistakes:  Part 1.5; Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order

Hope Hospice

Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. I had planned for this month’s blog, second in our series about common mistakes that family caregivers make, to be about the importance of having a support system in place. The post Top Family Caregiver Mistakes: Part 1.5;

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Care Across the Health Care Continuum: Communication and Education are the Keys to Success

Home Care Pulse

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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Dementia and Appetite Decline

Hope Hospice

For a person living with dementia, this process is on overdrive and it may cause him to not see a caregiver approaching from the side, or even a plate of food in front of them if he is not directly looking at it. Hope Hospice offers a free education series for family caregivers. Vision decline. Tips to help make mealtime go smoothly.

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