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Showing posts with label Long Term Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long Term Care. Show all posts
Friday, December 31, 2010

Poem About Loneliness in Older Adults/ Seniors

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                                          She waited, grasping like a New Year's resolution... Festive holidays hav...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Green House Living: Not Your Traditional Nursing Home (Video 4:25 mins.)

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A Green House is an example of culture change in long-term care living. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grant funding for the G...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Young Nursing Home Residents: Person-Centered Culture Change Must Include Them

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As quiet as it’s kept, young residents are often found in nursing homes. They are a growing population that many overlook when they think of...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Mental Health Services in Nursing Homes after Disasters

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Earthquakes like the recent one in Haiti and hurricanes like Katrina remind us of the devastating effects of environmental disasters. Livin...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Hospice Chaplain Planned Detroit Nursing Home Memorial Service

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The need to honor the deceased in an atmosphere of healing and support from others has been a common manner for mourning the dead. But s...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Nursing Home, Long-Term Care Trends: Robotic Technology of the Future (Video 2:04 mins.)

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                                                                         Humanoid Service Robot REEM-B Many people, particularly the graying...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Video Poem: “Living Colors” (Nursing Home, Staff Shortage, Poor Vision, Alzheimer’s Disease, Hospice) 2:56 mins.

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“Living Colors” is one of sixteen original poems included at the end of each chapter of "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Ur...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Culture Change: Nursing Home Dining (Video 2:13 mins.)

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Broadwater Health Center (above) in Montana has cooked-to-order breakfasts and multiple-entree noon and evening meals. The Centers fo...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Video Poem: “Reflections of a Hospice Volunteer” (Hospice, Nursing Homes, Eldercare) 3:25 mins.

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“Reflections of a Hospice Volunteer” is one of sixteen original poems included at the end of each chapter of "Becoming Dead Right: A...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Culture Change in Nursing Homes: What Works, What Doesn’t (Video: 1:59 mins.)

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Most people agree that changes in the stereotypical, traditional nursing homes are long overdue. What makes a nursing home really feel like ...
Monday, November 24, 2008

Hospice Care Perceptions of Nursing Home Staff

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In my book “Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes,” there is a chapter titled “Healthier Hospice.” This chapter ...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Culture Change in a Baby Boomer Nursing Home (Video 2:20 mins.)

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In my book "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes,” Baby Boomer Haven refers to an imaginary nursing home b...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Nursing Home Sex Offenders: Predators Living with Prey (Video 6:05 mins.)

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Virginia Thurston, almost eighty years old and suffering from dementia, was sexually assaulted by another resident in her Jacksonville, Flor...
Sunday, June 8, 2008

Eden Alternative for Nursing Homes (Video 6:52 mins.)

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The following includes an excerpt from my book, "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes.” The chapter title...