Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
A group of health plans, policymakers, and insurance companies recently told the Center for Medicare & Medicare Innovation (CMMI) that they needed a standardized definition for palliative care in order to improve access. The definition of palliative care that is out there is something that’s an intangible.
GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults?
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GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
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. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.
Chicago Caregiving
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Try not to feed into that. We have a very strict definition of what it means to be a good person, and that is many times toxic,” he adds. Adult children who restrict their involvement or decide not to care for their parents at all often face the additional emotional burden of other peoples’ judgment and even self-judgment.
Minority Nurse
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Neither of these options is necessarily bad in and of themselves, but a thoughtfully sculpted career is definitely fodder for a much richer, more satisfying, and rewarding trajectory. Yet, at the same time, it can also feed our sense of pride and purpose—and, perhaps, aspirations for more. The Continuum of Consciousness.
GeriPal
MAY 12, 2022
How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization. We create definitions.
Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway
JULY 25, 2022
Neither of these options are necessarily bad in and of themselves, but a thoughtfully sculpted career is definitely fodder for a much richer, satisfying, and rewarding trajectory. But we can also consider the ways in which work doesn't just pay the bills and put food on the table, but also how it feeds us on the inside.
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