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What Training Managers, Hospice, & Healthcare Facilities Miss about End of Life Care

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction Article Contents: For Training Managers, Hospice & Healthcare Facilities Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management.

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Care Across the Health Care Continuum: Communication and Education are the Keys to Success

Home Care Pulse

She could no longer feed herself, much less cook, and was dependent on others for everything. Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Within a year, she could only walk a few steps with help and mostly relied on a scooter.

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Dementia and Appetite Decline

Hope Hospice

There’s no one-size-fits-all method to combat feeding challenges, so try out a few of these methods to see what might work for your patient. Hope Hospice offers a free education series for family caregivers. The live webinars cover a variety of topics, including four presentations specifically on aspects of dementia care.

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Ep.3: How to Prepare Your Staff For OASIS-E Upgrades

Home Care Pulse

She’s got a deep background in both home health and hospice, uh, from both a visiting nurse perspective, and then also management in both of those. So your rehabs, your sniffs, your home health, and your hospices, and how they all work together. I was always really big and my staff would laugh at me in hospice.

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

Hope Hospice

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Hope Hospice Provides end-of-life resources including POLSTs and a free, downloadable/fillable Advance Health Care Directive for the State of California.

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

Hope Hospice

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Hope Hospice Provides end-of-life resources including POLSTs and a free, downloadable/fillable Advance Health Care Directive for the State of California.

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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. This series is written by Debbie Emerson , MS, Hope Hospice Community Health Educator. Hope Hospice. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: Advance care planning. Following is Part 1.5, Mistake #1.5: