January, 2020

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Bracing for Change Together at Home Care 100

AlayaCare

The conversation at Home Care 100 helped prove that agencies in this industry are looking ahead, bracing for change, and considering how to leverage this evolving landscape to best serve their clients. AlayaCare was proud to participate in this year’s event in Miami, which isn’t solely about education and knowledge translation. There was a heavy emphasis on networking, which offers a change of pace and invites collaborations and more personal conversations about the topics that touch everyone.

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Guest Post: In Defense of Selfies, by Dom Fuccillo

The Chaplain's Report

At the dawn of social media, friends sent me a lot of selfies and pet photos. Nice. Now they add a few words to them or call, and I feel better in touch. You may have had a similar experience. This presumed march from self to thou may teach us something about our field: the value of reaching out more thoroughly and often to colleagues and chaplains-in-training.

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Elderly patients falling risk to repeated hospitalizations. Five prevention strategies.

Bayshore Care Home

According to AmericasHealthRankings.org, 16 percent of elderly adults in the US with Medicare insurance returned to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Returning to the hospital within a short. The post Elderly patients falling risk to repeated hospitalizations. Five prevention strategies. first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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Ep. 7 - Ginger Marshall, CEO of HPNA, HPCC, and HPNF

HPNA podcast

In this edition of HPNA’s Podcast Corner, we invite Ginger Marshall, HPNA/HPNF/HPCC Enterprise’s chief executive officer, to share with our listeners her journey in caring for patients and families with serious illness. Beginning with her early career as a certified nursing assistant to a senior advanced practice nurse executive leader, Ginger reflects on the importance of mentors throughout her nursing career.

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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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Your Hospice Team Has a New Home

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

In this episode, your hospice team discusses the exciting opportunities resulting from their move to a new law firm: Husch Blackwell. Their new home enhances their ability to provide wide-ranging and value-added counsel and problem-solving to hospices facing audits, surveys, enforcement activity, litigation, and regulatory concerns. It also augments their hospice expertise in areas like Medicare Advantage, joint ventures, mergers and affiliations, ACO contracting, and alternative payment models.

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The effectiveness of aromatherapy, massage and reflexology in people with palliative care needs: A systematic review

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Dr Bridget Candy and Dr Megan Armstrong (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK). Aromatherapy, massage and reflexology are widely used in palliative care. Patients themselves often report that these therapies are helpful. It is important to demonstrate value for money in health care service provision including in palliative care.

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Guest Post: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through Activism, by Dominic Fuccillo

The Chaplain's Report

Guest Post: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through Activism , by Dominic Fuccillo. The following article was contributed by Dominic Fuccillo and originally appeared in CPSP Pastoral Report on Jan 20, 2020, Perry Miller, editor: Editor’s Note: In this time of division, even with forces designed to legitimize expressions and actions fueled by hate and racial discrimination, we need to hear and re-hear the voice and message of Dr.

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Home Care Vs. Other Senior Living Options

Bayshore Care Home

The decision to “age in place” at home vs. downsizing and moving to a senior care community is often unclear for many families. The emotional toll it takes on the. The post Home Care Vs. Other Senior Living Options first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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The Role of Spiritual Care in Hospice

Hope Hospice

At Hope Hospice, spiritual care is among the services we provide to patients, upon request. We serve patients and families from all walks of life and cultures. With that variety comes a spectrum of strong religious traditions, more fluid spiritual connections, and those who do not hold any transcendent beliefs. We asked one of our Spiritual Care Counselors, Reverend Melissa Tumaneng, to discuss some differences between the terms religion and spirituality, and to explain the role of spiritual car

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AlayaCare R&D department AlayaLabs putting people at the centre of innovation investments

AlayaCare

Award-winning home care software provider AlayaCare, ramps up AlayaLabs, their R&D department focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), optimization and machine learning technologies to help home and community care organizations deliver better client outcomes and improved employee experiences. The company has been granted $1.8M in funding from government and investment ventures to support AlayaLabs and help contribute to the development of a world-class Canadian AI ecosystem.

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AlayaCare Announces Strategic Acquisition of Procura

AlayaCare

Acquisition accelerates AlayaCare’s growth strategy and vision to be the world’s most trusted home and community care technology provider JANUARY 3, 2020 AlayaCare, an award-winning technology platform for home and community care, today announced the acquisition of Procura , a division of Complia Health , a leading global provider of enterprise software for long-term and post-acute care organizations.

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2020: The Year of Whole-Person Health and Wellness

AlayaCare

We have arrived in the opening chapter of this new decade, in the year of wellness. Welcome to twenty-twenty. As our CEO, Adrian Schauer, wrote in his annual forecast of the coming year, this year will mark a major turning point in delivering not only care, but in helping patients achieve greater wellness, too. If outcomes drive efforts in health care, a shift toward fulsome wellness strategies for all patients is both necessary and long overdue.

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