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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Examples of Home Health services are skilled nursing, nursing aide, physical/occupational therapy, and speech therapy. Skilled nursing is the general medical care provided to patients and includes such services as medication management, wound care, patient education, etc. What Does Hospice Care Include?

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? That’s okay.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Then I started reading about this and a British nurse started preaching palliative care all over India. So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. I am a nurse and I have seen a lot of sickness and a lot of dying. We lost my wife's Dad, four years ago, he was in a nursing home and basically died a miserable death. Important point here.