AlayaCare

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Data metrics and feedback gathered through the Home Care Pulse Satisfaction Management Program allow AlayaCare customers to accurately measure and improve the quality of care. NOVEMBER 7, 2019 Leading home care software platform, AlayaCare, announced their partnership and integration with Home Care Pulse – a leading organization for quality assurance and performance benchmarking in the home care industry.

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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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The Chaplain's Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Last time I wrote about practical ways in which churches can work to address the concrete needs of those affected by mental illness and emotional distress in their congregations. That frankly is something that is not too difficult or controversial. The more difficult task for clergy is how to address mental health during the service. Here as well I think a holistic approach is best and necessary.

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2019

October 20-26, 2019 is National Spirituality Week. Enjoy this lively conversation between two spiritual advisors about implications of spirituality in end of life care. October 20-26, 2019 is National Spirituality Week. Enjoy this lively conversation between two spiritual advisors about implications of spirituality in end of life care.

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HospiceDiary

JULY 9, 2019

How many of us, as nurses, have had the experience of speaking to an “enflamed” family member, and practiced all our communication skills to bring calm and rational judgment into play?

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

People process grief in different ways. If your caregiver role has ended due to the death of the person in your care, it’s understandable to feel grief, especially if that person was close to you and your family. For a grieving child, like anyone, grief is an individual process. The way children experience grief will depend largely on their age and/or developmental stage, the nature of their relationship with the person who died, and the circumstances of the death.

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Rest Assured Hospice

MARCH 14, 2019

When you think about nutrition management, you may imagine an individual trying to lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain their youthful energy. However, good nutrition is essential for every stage of life, including end-of-life care. Many reputable hospice organizations employ nutrition experts to offer dietary support to individuals in hospice care.

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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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AlayaCare

OCTOBER 14, 2019

One well-trodden saying goes: people don’t leave bad companies – they leave bad bosses (and teams!). If you’ve ever felt trapped in a work environment that felt unsupportive and uninspiring, you know it can strain motivation to keep performing at a high level. Now, consider this: if any of your employees are currently feeling this way, not only is it impacting their morale, it’s likely leaking into overall morale too.

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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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Bayshore Care Home

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you’re considering in home care for yourself or your loved one you may be unsure of where to start. Below you will find some questions that are helpful when. The post What questions should I ask a home care agency? first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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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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Hospice Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Direct Data Entry (DDE) access is a company’s revenue lifeline: without it, hospices cannot comply with NOE filing requirements or submit claims for payment. Every hospice has DDE login rights, but many fail to recognize (and take due care to avoid) the serious hidden pitfalls that are found in this system. Failure to avoid these pitfalls can cause loss of access; and, in turn, hospices face at least significant administrative work to recover access and perhaps forfeiture of certain billings (

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Many pharmacists (especially members of the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists) made incredible presentations at PainWeek 2019 in Las Vegas recently! In this podcast they discuss their presentations, including take-away messages. Many pharmacists (especially members of the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists) made incredible presentations at PainWeek 2019 in Las Vegas recently!

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Journey With Deanna

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Kimberly King Wise is a Certified End of Life Doula, Home Funeral Guide, Certified Business Manager and Virtual Assistant with 21 years of experience supporting coaches, trainers and authors. She is a passionate death positive movement advocate and is uniquely skilled in helping death positive business owners kickstart their businesses into high gear.

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HospiceDiary

APRIL 15, 2019

I am concerned about a new mantra afoot: that palliative care–unlike hospice care– is not “giving up” but is addressing improved symptom management and quality of life (QOL) for all patients with advanced disease.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

When you are approaching the Closing LifeStage of Caregiving , you and your family are all dealing with many emotions. And, if you have a young child or a teenager, you are also aware that children have a way of knowing when something is wrong, even from a young age. Teaching children about death isn’t easy but when you share information about what’s happening, it’s better for everyone.

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Rest Assured Hospice

MARCH 14, 2019

When you have a loved one with a serious illness that turns out to be terminal in nature, you may find yourself wondering what you can and should do to take care of your loved one and provide them with the comfort and care that they need in this difficult time. One of the options available to you and your loved one is hospice care.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This episode features Brett Scholz (Medical School, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia). Consumer involvement is required by policy at all levels of health services. Some health disciplines have well-established research programmes focusing on consumer leadership. Palliative care is philosophically consumer-centred, but there has been less of a focus on consumer leadership at the systemic level of palliative care services.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In the golden age of metrics, there’s another interesting tool that can help your agency collect important data insights: the “Net Promoter Score”, or NPS for short. If you haven’t heard of it already, NPS is a way virtually any company can measure its customer experience. By measuring that experience, it’s then possible to understand customer loyalty – and from that, predict how a business might grow.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 28, 2019

So much in life is out of our control, and, at times, the uncertainty causes frustration and stress. However, this doesn’t have to be the case at the end of life. The Five Wishes document is a way for you to communicate your desires for how you want to be treated—medically, physically, and spiritually—if you get seriously ill and/or death is near. For your family, Five Wishes ends the bedside guessing game of what you want or do not want at the end of your life.

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Bayshore Care Home

AUGUST 5, 2019

As our population ages, the issue of caring for aging loved ones grows. True, having family care for a loved one at home is an option. But with the weight. The post Questions to consider when hiring in-home senior care first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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HPNA podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In our 4thepisode of HPNA’s Podcast Corner, we offer listeners a framework to explore the impact of compassion fatigue and its relationship to the individual’s self-care and resilience. This recording supports additional resources to accompany HPNA’s Podcast Episode 3 Stories from the Field with Barb Schmal. This 60-minute, free on-demand recording delivers concise, actionable strategies that you can incorporate immediately into your professional and personal practices, enabling listeners to ack

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Hospice Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Last week, the 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment given to AseraCare in its hospice false claims case, setting up more litigation on the question whether AseraCare’s certifications were made in good faith. But, the appeals court also affirmed a critical trial court ruling on the standard to be applied to review of hospice claims for “falsity,” holding that a mere difference of opinion among physicians is insufficient to establish that a claim is false; and, holding t

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Palliative Care Chat Podcast

JULY 25, 2019

Listen as Dr. McPherson interviews Christina McCurdy, RN, MS, director of inpatient care, nursing support services, crisis intervention care and Medicare care choices at Community Hospice and Palliative Care in Jacksonville, Florida. Listen as Dr. McPherson interviews Christina McCurdy, RN, MS, director of inpatient care, nursing support services, crisis intervention care and Medicare care choices at Community Hospice and Palliative Care in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Journey With Deanna

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Kimberly King Wise is a Certified End of Life Doula, Home Funeral Guide, Certified Business Manager and Virtual Assistant with 21 years of experience supporting coaches, trainers and authors. She is a passionate death positive movement advocate and is uniquely skilled in helping death positive business owners kickstart their businesses into high gear.

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HospiceDiary

AUGUST 9, 2019

Don’t call me morbid because I’ve spent the past few days preparing obituary examples. I’ll be using these for a class of young people to demonstrate a bit of what “legacy” means: something left behind when you are gone.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

When you are approaching the Closing LifeStage of Caregiving , you and your family are all dealing with many emotions. And, if you have a young child or a teenager, you are also aware that children have a way of knowing when something is wrong, even from a young age. Teaching children about death isn’t easy but when you share information about what’s happening, it’s better for everyone.

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Rest Assured Hospice

MARCH 14, 2019

According to the American Cancer Society, hospice is set up to aid an individual in their final stages of life while allowing death to occur naturally. Not only is the person treated with respect and dignity, he or she is also kept as comfortable as possible.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This episode features Mary Scott (Ottowa Hospital Research Institute. Bruyere Research Institute). Many patients and families report improved satisfaction of care when palliative care when they are supported by palliative care specialist teams. Transitions of care from one setting to another are burdensome. Evidence suggests that palliative care can improve this transition from hospital to community support.

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AlayaCare

AUGUST 6, 2019

How did you learn about AlayaCare? I met a few members of the AlayaCare team at a health care and business conference hosted by my university. I went to the conference to learn first-hand from health care professionals about what they are doing to overcome inadequacies in the health care system (such as long wait times, overcrowding, and rural inaccessibility to affordable health care).

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Memory loss is one of the widely known symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, but many other skills and abilities become impaired as well. Persons living with dementia experience changes in the brain’s temporal lobe that affect their ability to process language. Even in the disease’s early stages, caregivers may notice a decline in formal language (vocabulary, comprehension, and speech production), which all humans rely upon to communicate verbally.

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Bayshore Care Home

JULY 26, 2019

Cultivating trust with our clients is paramount in everything we do. Here is our simple, clear and caring model for delivering value, trust and peace of mind to our clients. The post Our 4 step plan for creating a trusting relationship with our clients first appeared on Bayshore Home Care.

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HPNA podcast

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. In this episode of Stories from the Field , we welcome Barb Schmal, Certified Hospice and Palliative Registered Nurse, as she reflects on the impact of compassion fatigue throughout her career-long journey. She shares with us the importance of reflecting on the individual strengths that allow us to continue to do this meaningful work of caring for patients and families with serious illness.

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