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Post-PHE Hospice Regulation: How CMS Could Unbend Infection Control Rules

Hospice News

We’re going to have COVID vaccinations fall in line with much of the other normative practices around vaccination for influenza,” Muir said during a recent Hospice News webinar. For instance, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals or health systems could require hospice clinicians to be vaccinated before they enter a facility, he said.

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Achieving Person-Centered Care in Hospice: Keys and Best Practices

Hospice News

“Person-centered care means treating the patient as an individual and treating them as equal partners in the business of caring, in the art of caring, and the science of caring,” Lopez-Devine said in a recent webinar hosted by Hospice News and Homecare Homebase.

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A conversation about mental health in LTC

The World According to Dr. El

We spoke about the experiences that inform my thinking about long-term care, and we addressed topics such as the disconnect between mental and physical health, the moral injury and staff burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, and ways of better supporting staff, families and facilities in their efforts to provide quality care.

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 I Just Received a Dementia Diagnosis—What Do I Do Next?

Hope Hospice

Hope Hospice offers a monthly Family Caregiver Education Series for just this purpose, and several of the classes are focused on dementia care. The Series is offered at no charge and is currently produced as live webinars. Get Your Affairs In Order. You might also like: How Alzheimer’s Disease Affects Communication.

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Caring for Adult Children With Special Needs

Hope Hospice

It’s important to have conversations as a family to evaluate long-term care decisions for your adult child. This website is one of the most reliable and comprehensive sources of information for those providing care for loved ones. Knowing your options before the need arises is the best way to prepare. caregiver.org.

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Top 10 Learnings For Home Care Agencies from COVID-19

AlayaCare

Here is what we are seeing, hearing about, and talking about (in a recent webinar): Surging demand for home care : Despite the initial drop, we’re now seeing a resurgence of The reasons are many. Still, themes are emerging as we move from the acute to the chronic phase of this pandemic.

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Digital Strategies for Home Care Agencies of Today

AlayaCare

Health care as no “pause” button so this change happens in real time. Earlier in May we hosted a webinar along with experts from Hireology , Home Care Pulse and Care Academy to explore digital best practices that agencies can use to survive the current turmoil, and future-proof for a post-pandemic world.