Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

Hiring an in-home nurse can be a game-changer for family caregivers. They offer much-needed professional care for their loved ones. Here’s what to know before hiring in-home nursing services. Research the Different Types of In-Home Nurses All elderly adults have different health demands and care needs.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Unmet needs for mental health care is creating opportunities for nurses, both new and experienced, in multiple care settings. With the demand for mental health nurses, the possibilities are wide-open, well-paying — and impressively diverse. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. J Am Geriatr Soc. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too? Anne: Great to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. I mean, typically individuals are seeing a physician, a nurse, whoever it is, and then we are brought in oftentimes well after dysphagia has started. Eric: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g. Welcome back.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. “A palliative care consult has been ordered. Good to see you.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

And that’s not so much an instrumental value argument because once they’ve been in the trial, unlike with your docs and nurses, it’s not to try to get them to be in future trials or something so much as it is to recognize that past contribution, so I think that’s another example.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. Gilchrist will soon expand services with an inpatient pediatric hospice facility in Baltimore City, Md.,

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Diversity Nursing

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Whether you are considering a career in Nursing or are a Nurse looking to switch pathways, something to consider is salary. Here is a list of this year's highest paying Nursing positions. Chief Nursing Officer On a day-to-day basis, the CNO of a healthcare organization is kept busy by a wide range of responsibilities.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: What got you interested in memory care, dementia, and put you on this path? Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home.

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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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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care. The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. Priorities of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, and the unique role of ASPE and BHDAP in guiding the agenda and long-term goals. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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