April, 2020

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Caring for Caregivers during Covid-19

Hospice Volunteering

I wanted to share the second video I’ve made for Abbotsford House – this one focusses on the impact of Covid-19 on people who are caring for someone in these challenging times, whether their loved one lives with them, or at a distance, or in a long-term care home or retirement residence. (Remember, I’m new at this! So I don’t know how to change how my expression appears on the link!

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AlayaCare’s new Family Portal delivers peace of mind to home care clients and their families amidst pandemic

AlayaCare

Secure platform ushers in new standard of care, making clients full partners in their own care plans and connecting them to agencies Montreal, QC – April 30, 2020 – AlayaCare today announced its revamped Family Portal: a secure, online tool for clients, providers and authorized family members to not only access their health care information from any device, anywhere, but be active participants in their own care plans, too.

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Maintaining a Relationship with your Loved One in a Facility during COVID-19.

Hospice 101

Today, due to the threat of COVID-19 on our health, our personal relationships have suddenly changed (literally overnight) with our friends, coworkers, neighbors, fellow church members, social group members, and even family members living outside of our immediate homes. Where once we were free to meet and socialize with physical touch in a personal circle, today we are forced to avoid personal and physical contact, even avoiding others with a minimum of six feet of space between us.

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

Hope Hospice

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., Power of Attorney) should sudden illness, disability, or even death occur? 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.

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The Ultimate Guide to Improving Caregiver Engagement & Retention

Want to learn how to retain your caregivers & improve caregiver retention X3? The home care industry is experiencing turnover rates of over 80%. How are you ensuring your agency is retaining caregivers? This FREE eBook from Smartcare Software is packed with industry secrets needed to keep your caregivers happy, engaged, and retained, unlocking the full potential of your agency.

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The Future of Home Care in a COVID-19 World

Bayshore Care Home

While the term home care is often over-generalized, those in the healthcare industry have come to refer to home care as non-medical services that range from companionship to assistance with. The post The Future of Home Care in a COVID-19 World first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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Ep. 10 - Special Edition: Moral Distress & Complicated Grief During COVID-19

HPNA podcast

In this special edition of HPNA's Podcast Corner, we address moral distress and complicated grief during the COVID-19 crisis. Our guest is Kathie Supiano, PhD, LCSW, F-GSA, FT, APHSW-C, a clinical social worker and an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing. She is also the director of Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program at the University of Utah College of Nursing.

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AlayaCare Releases Virtual Care Solution to Keep Seniors and Care Providers Safe Amidst Pandemic

AlayaCare

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, leading technology provider, AlayaCare is helping ensure front line health-care workers, and the patients they serve, remain healthy while staying connected in their homes. After an urgent new update this month, AlayaCare is the first home care technology company to allow any in-person visit to be converted to a virtual visit seamlessly.

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The Heart of Hospice Volunteers

Hospice 101

“Many of our hospice volunteers don’t even realize the impact they have on the lives they touch”. Volunteers are valuable members of our society. They are people who spread goodness to others out of the kindness of their hearts. Volunteers are found everywhere! They are working to fix up and build parks, they are picking up trash on the side of our roads, they are greeting fellow church members, they can be found in kitchens for the less fortunate, they can be found stocking shelves at a food pa

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

Hope Hospice

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., Power of Attorney) should sudden illness, disability, or even death occur? 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.

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Death Doula Discussion on Vigil (pro tips)

Journey With Deanna

Vigil days (pre-death vigil) is what most people think of when they think of serving the dying and their families. Here are some tips that may be helpful if you are considering doing this service professionally.

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Episode 33 - Horses are Made to Be Horses: PalCare Lays the Foundation for Person-Centered Care

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

List to Shirley Otis-Green, palliative care social worker extraordinaire discuss “Horses are Made to Be Horses: How Palliative Care Lays the Foundation for Person-Centered Care.” Shirley is President and Founder of Collaborative Caring. List to Shirley Otis-Green, palliative care social worker extraordinaire discuss “Horses are Made to Be Horses: How Palliative Care Lays the Foundation for Person-Centered Care.

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Innovators Series: A Conversation with Michael McHale, President and CEO of TRU Community Care

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

In this episode, Meg Pekarske talks with Michael McHale who is President and CEO of TRU Community Care. Michael is a friend, colleague and hospice innovator. As a former board member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (“NHPCO”), Michael is always thinking of ways to lead proactive growth and change. He is driven to solutions by the fundamental question: “how can we better serve the needs of our community?

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Virtual care tools can break isolation among home and community care clients amidst COVID-19

AlayaCare

The number of adults living alone has continued to climb over the past 60 years, amounting to almost 37 million Americans as of 2019. This represents nearly one-third of all U.S. households. As we know, the home and community care industry serves a high proportion of clients who are striving to live independently while on their own. The vast majority are aging adults who come to rely heavily on visits from family members, scheduled activities in the community, or even errands to see familiar fac

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Crash Course in Hospice Nursing for ER and ICU Staff.

Hospice 101

With the sudden and continuing increase in COVID-19 patients in our world, there are many nurses that are finding themselves face to face with death, more than ever before. ICU Nurses and ER nurses are trained to help and care for patients with urgent and emergent needs, with the goal to have them walk out their hospital doors. However, with the death rate continuing to increase, the likelihood of this goal is still poor.

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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. Following is Part 1.5, a continuation of the previous discussion on preparation. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. Revisit Part 1: Not Planning in Advance. Mistake #1.5: Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order.

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Death Doula Discussion on Vigil (pro tips)

Journey With Deanna

Vigil days (pre-death vigil) is what most people think of when they think of serving the dying and their families. Here are some tips that may be helpful if you are considering doing this service professionally.

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Episode 34 - AAHPM responds to COVID: Serving patients, providers and communities

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

AAHPM responds to COVID: Serving patients, providers and communities - Dr. Joe Rotella, Chief Medical Officer of AAHPM, shares how the Academy has stepped up to the plate during this pandemic, providing valuable resources to the community. [link] AAHPM responds to COVID: Serving patients, providers and communities - Dr. Joe Rotella, Chief Medical Officer of AAHPM, shares how the Academy has stepped up to the plate during this pandemic, providing valuable resources to the community.

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A mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis of barriers and facilitators to paediatric symptom management at end-of-life

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

The palliative care needs of infants, children and young people differ to those of adults. The broad spectrum of paediatric life-limiting or life-threatening conditions mean that symptoms are varied and complex to manage. The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has emphasised pain management in paediatric palliative care as a research priority.

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COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: $30 Billion in Relief Funds Made Available, but Strings are Attached!

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

On Friday, April 10, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began disbursing $30 billion in relief funds directly to Medicare providers, including hospices. The use of those funds, however, is subject to a number of terms and conditions that raise significant questions. Failure to adhere to those terms and conditions could require a hospice to return those funds or result in liability during future audits or enforcement actions.

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Providing Hospice Cares in a Facility during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Quarantine

Hospice 101

Dear Fellow Hospice RNs, It’s now, more than ever, that your hospice patients really need your kindness, your compassion, your caring nature, and your gentle demeanor. They need you to visit, to provide a listening ear, and to provide them with some social interaction. At a time we are being told to avoid others and limit our time with our patients, is a time that hospice nurses should really be increasing their frequency of weekly visits.

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Hope & the Hot-Air Balloon

Hope Hospice

Reflections of Hope: Remembering Our First 40 Years. Hope’s official logo has evolved over time, and early versions are a far cry from today’s dove motif. Some digging revealed the story behind one with a hot-air balloon illustration that worked its way into our design in 1983. One of our patients at the time, a “bright, feisty widow,” according to our archives, had helped her husband manage two successful businesses.

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Death Doulas Use Same Skills for COVID-19

Journey With Deanna

What you have learned as a death doula is the same set of skills and awarenesses that you need now, during COVID-19. Its not that we need new skills, its that we need to dive deeper within for a newer deeper level of self care to be that guiding light that we already are, whether we are aware of it or not. QualityOfLifeCare.

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Episode 32 - Crushing a Crash Course in Being Mortal

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

Dr. Ira Byock, physician, author, patient advocate and Founder of the Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joseph Health, recounts why "This Pandemic is Personal," and a "Crash Course in Being Mortal." This is a MUST listen! Dr. Ira Byock, physician, author, patient advocate and Founder of the Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joseph Health, recounts why "This Pandemic is Personal," and a "Crash Course in Being Mortal.

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Preserving Easter Traditions With Family During COVID-19

Bayshore Care Home

The term, ‘Alone -Together’, that was birthed out of our recent pandemic is in no way comforting. However, it perfectly describes our experience. As an essential business caring for the. The post Preserving Easter Traditions With Family During COVID-19 first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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Labor and Employment Trends – COVID-19 Edition: FFCRA Insights for Healthcare Providers

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

In today’s COVID-19 edition of the Hospice Labor and Employment Trends series, Meg Pekarske talks with colleague Tom O’Day about the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). As one of Husch Blackwell’s healthcare-focused employment attorneys, Tom is uniquely situated to interpret the FFCRA for healthcare providers of all kinds, including hospices.

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Death Doulas Use Same Skills for COVID-19

Journey With Deanna

What you have learned as a death doula is the same set of skills and awarenesses that you need now, during COVID-19. Its not that we need new skills, its that we need to dive deeper within for a newer deeper level of self care to be that guiding light that we already are, whether we are aware of it or not. QualityOfLifeCare.

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Suffering with Serious Illness? What to do. Listen in Death Doulas and Healthcare Advocates

Journey With Deanna

You can heal from your illness and NOT have to suffer. That is the message in this video. Unconventional ways to use the medicine most think only hospice uses. (all death doulas and healthcare advocates should know backwards and forwards whats in this video.

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Suffering with Serious Illness? What to do. Listen in Death Doulas and Healthcare Advocates

Journey With Deanna

You can heal from your illness and NOT have to suffer. That is the message in this video. Unconventional ways to use the medicine most think only hospice uses. (all death doulas and healthcare advocates should know backwards and forwards whats in this video.

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Episode 31 - It Depends.Palliative Care Responds to a Pandemic

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

Dr. Arif Kamal, internationally known researcher provider, discusses the emerging roles for palliative care in a pandemic. Dr. Arif Kamal, internationally known researcher provider, discusses the emerging roles for palliative care in a pandemic.

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Episode 30 - Providing Palliative Care Down Country Roads: Now Throw in a Pandemic

Palliative Care Chat Podcast

Listen to Dr. Michael Frakin, founder and CEO of Resolution Care Network, discuss his innovative practice model with Dr. Lynn McPherson. Listen to Dr. Michael Frakin, founder and CEO of Resolution Care Network, discuss his innovative practice model with Dr. Lynn McPherson.

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COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series: Recent Developments Regarding Telehealth, Virtual Visits, and Medicare Audits and Appeals

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

Change is fast-paced in the world of COVID-19. On Monday, March 30th, CMS released an interim final rule along with hospice specific waivers. Your Hospice Team discusses these recent developments and their impact on telehealth, face-to-face encounters, virtual visits and Medicare appeals and audits. Change is fast-paced in the world of COVID-19. On Monday, March 30th, CMS released an interim final rule along with hospice specific waivers.

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New Death Doulas, you can help now during the pandemic, you dont have to wait.

Journey With Deanna

As a society we have been turned upside by the covid-19 pandemic. What death doulas in training can do now to support.

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New Death Doulas, you can help now during the pandemic, you dont have to wait.

Journey With Deanna

As a society we have been turned upside by the covid-19 pandemic. What death doulas in training can do now to support.

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