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

GeriPal

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.

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Fight Option Paralysis: Find Your Next Nursing Career Move

Minority Nurse

Understanding Option Paralysis Option paralysis, sometimes known as choice overload, occurs when you’re presented with too many choices. One of the ways you can reverse engineer this part of the process is by definitively crossing off what you wouldn’t even consider doing.

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Caring for Someone with ALS

Traditions Health

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

It is something that I have been involved with in a past life, but I was definitely not where I would consider myself a subject matter expert. The ACO REACH model of course is provider-based organizations that offer three types of participants.

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Can I Include End of Life Care Wishes in My Will?

Seasons Hospice

What Items Should Be Present In Your Living Will? In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes. When it comes to end-of-life wishes, there are definitely some that will not be honored in a living will.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

By completing the Practical Geriatric Assessment, we’re able to feed in and get a result of the probable toxicity that patients will experience. John: You know, Eric, I think it’s a definite possibility. So it definitely changes the dynamic on goals of care, and increases that. No, no, please. How does that fit in?

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. Sunita: Oh, I was going to, just to clarify what I had said before, it’s definitely not that we based things solely on biology, for sure.