AlayaCare

DECEMBER 19, 2019

If you’re a home care agency in Ontario, we are confident you have heard that the newly established Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) has introduced its first cohort of 24 teams across the province. OHTs are a model of care in which Queen’s Park aims to design a sustainable and, above all, integrated health-care system that is focused on the patient. In that model, funding and deliver of care is transitioning from a siloed system to a unified one that connects patients and providers – and ideally fost

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Hope Hospice

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Coping with a loved one’s sundowning behaviors is a common struggle among family caregivers. Family care partners and professional caregivers alike get frustrated with dementia-related behaviors that are barriers to providing care and improving quality of life for the person in their care. Behaviors associated with sundowning are particularly difficult.

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Bayshore Care Home

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Americans age 65 and older make up 13% of the population but consume about one third of all prescription drugs. Older individuals also take more potentially addictive medications than any. The post How to avoid the avoidable hospitalization. first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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HPNA podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

. In our 6th episode of HPNA’s Podcast Corner, we offer listeners a framework to explore nursing advances in LGBTQ-inclusive palliative care. Nina Barrett, palliative care nurse practitioner, frames the unique health needs of the LGBTQ palliative care patient, including challenges regarding disclosure and advance care planning. Nina calls to light the health disparities affecting the LGBTQ population, their historical roots, and the extra challenges facing transgender patients.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

This episode features Dr Nicola White and Dr Linda Oostendorp (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London (UCL), London, UK). Recognising dying is a core clinical skill. There is inconsistent training in the United Kingdom and both medical students and doctors report feeling unsure and ill prepared when working with a dying patient and their family.

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HospiceDiary

DECEMBER 29, 2019

As I thought about who and what have been my greatest teachers in life, I considered the quote: He who can, does; He who cannot, teaches*.

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Hope Hospice

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Caregivers commonly observe vision decline in dementia patients. People living with dementia commonly experience changes to their vision beyond what’s expected as part of the normal aging process. As dementia-related illnesses cause progressive brain deterioration, a person will experience certain sight deficits because the brain is no longer processing what the eyes see in the same way.

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AlayaCare

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The holidays are a time to celebrate the joys of the season with family and friends – yet they can also introduce high levels of stress and difficulty. December is a particularly acute time of year for the thousands of home care providers upon who some of our most vulnerable citizens rely every day. Their needs do not relax, and continuity of service is important even as it feels like the year is winding down.

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HPNA podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2019

. In this episode of HPNA Podcast Corner’s Stories from the Field, we welcome Dr. Kris Halsey to share with us his 20-year vocation as a clinical chaplain providing spiritual and psychosocial support to patients and families nearing life’s end. Kris talks about the spiritual, religious, and external aspects of hospice and palliative care as he shares stories about his most rewarding spiritual care moments along with challenges he has faced along the way.

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