Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

doctor, hospital, nursing home) are added to the electronic medical record. Foleys/Tubes -Does the patient have any tubes such as feeding tubes, CADD pumps, or Foley catheters. If the patient is on tube feedings, you will want to verify that they have feeding supplies available. CALL FIRST!!!

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 19, 2023

Jeannine Forrest, PhD, RN, of Dementia Coach On-Call, recalls consulting at a nursing home where a woman with dementia was losing weight. Forrest, who conducted a program at Lake Forest Place focusing on how to feed people with dementia, had the opportunity to taste Ortega’s pureed food dishes.

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Chicago Caregiving

JANUARY 3, 2024

Joan and her mother Then, last year, Joan’s mother broke her hip and was told she could no longer live alone in her Indiana home. Joan and her sister considered finding their mother a nursing home, but Joan and her husband decided to move Joan’s mother in with them. Her goal became to get her granddaughter back on a horse.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Traditions Health

AUGUST 21, 2023

Home health care Home health care provides the support needed to help you get and stay healthy.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. nursing homes.

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Hope Hospice

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s why falls are the most common cause of nursing home placement. You might also like: Assisting With Personal Hygiene > Seniors and Hot-Weather Safety > Challenges With Feeding Elderly Patients > The post Fall Prevention appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services. Do not move your shoulders or feet.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Is cancer pain really different? Katie: Yep.

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Death and Dying Chronicles

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Hospice staff refused to feed the person who was no longer able to safely swallow. That did it… There once was an elderly woman, in her 80’s, suffering from dementia and currently a flu like illness that had been going around the nursing home. Hospice staff gave the person medication. That did it. That did it. That did it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: And by the way, I should mention that some of the work that’s been done in the past on patients with dementia in the hospital, it’s been based on Emily Finlayson’s work looking at surgery, but really looking only at nursing home patients. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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. We lost my wife's Dad, four years ago, he was in a nursing home and basically died a miserable death. So if she stayed in a hospital or nursing home, we couldn't see her.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I mean, I, you know, when I was a fresh nurse, I wasn’t gonna come in there and say, because I had a degree, I knew more than these nursing assistants, who’d worked for 20 years, you know, on a unit. Suddenly people were realizing that, oh, you know, people wanted to stay home. Linda Leekley ( 13:52 ): Right?

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