Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

RB : After I worked as a nursing assistant in two nursing homes, I went to grad school. My focus was to gather useful and compelling information that can inform the design and implementation of programs to provide support and meaningful lives for older adults and those who care for them.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We have nurses who have extra training in palliative care. We have medical social workers who support the patients. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. We have a psychiatrist.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care. Our home-based care teams have the experience and knowledge needed to help make the end-of-life transition as comfortable as possible for patients and their loved ones. Contact us today for more information.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 7, 2022

Please check with your Hospice Provider for specific information on ER visits and Hospitalization of the Hospice patient. Check with your Hospice Nurse to ensure your family receives the proper information prior to calling 911. Typically the Hospice Nurse and Social Worker coordinate this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah.

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

In most cases, hospice care is provided by a team of trained professionals that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers. For patients, this may include providing information about their illness and its progression. Continuous Home Care. What Is The Goal Of Hospice Care. Mental Support.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Social workers can help you and your loved one resolve any lingering end-of-life planning. Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals. Social workers also help patients make sure they have end-of-life items completed, such as funeral planning or will writing. .

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Please read full disclosur e for more information. Being a hospice nurse can leave you feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. If so, then you need these 7 simple ways to get organized for hospice nurses. This organizational tip can be the rural nurses’ lifesaver. Sound familiar? Interdisciplinary Team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. She had a respiratory arrest, and the nurse was really distraught. And that helps us get to the decision.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. Agency values are for informational purposes only and are not meant to represent actual agency survey scores. Similarly, you should always call the family of your nursing home patients to inform them about their loved one’s pain control.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Social worker services. The National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health, provides valuable information on the subject of hospice care. While hospice care often takes place at home, it can also be provided in inpatient facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes. .

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Kindful Hospice

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

To provide for the greatest care for the patient, hospice care is typically offered in the home or administered in a hospital or a nursing home. These teams have a diverse array of special skills, made up of spiritual advisors, social workers, doctors, nurses, and even trained volunteers.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So, Susan, I Hope this information is helpful to you. If you need more information, you can go to our episode number 19. They're very informative, as well as encouraging. I am a nurse and I have seen a lot of sickness and a lot of dying. So if she stayed in a hospital or nursing home, we couldn't see her.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain. We need that information.

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Shining Light Hospice

JANUARY 6, 2022

The hospice team typically includes a Physician, Nurses, Aides, Social Worker, and a Chaplain. This care usually occurs in the patient’s own home; however, it can include alternatives such as a nursing home, a care home, a relative’s home, a hospice inpatient unit, or a hospital in some circumstances.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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. I could walk down the hall and get information. Malaz: Social worker, anybody.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. Where do we go with all of this information? I just want to highlight some work.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Here’s our contact information. Eric: BlackRock.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome to the podcast Alaine Murawski…Social worker and researcher, research study coordinator at Northwestern. One of my co-authors, Alaine Murawski, who’s a social worker, she has a lot of the similar experiences if you want to talk about it from a social worker perspective.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. Greg: Yeah, great question.

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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

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After one of Boyd’s clients, an older African American woman, suffered double strokes, a hospital social worker assumed that she had no family and no private insurance. Hospital administrators placed the woman in a subpar nursing home, at which her health declined.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Without these vital communications in the brain cells occurring, a decline in speech, communication, concentration, information processing, and overall functions will ensue. A patient may no longer recall important information such as their current address or phone number. When Is It Time for Hospice Care?

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MAY 11, 2022

doctor, hospital, nursing home) are added to the electronic medical record. If your agency is still on paper then you will likely have a physical chart with this information. Regardless, there are key pieces of information that your intake team should obtain. Review Intake Information and Records. CALL FIRST!!!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge.

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