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Friday, August 24, 2007

Hurricane Katrina: Nursing Home Evacuation Lessons Learned

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It’s been two years since Hurricane Katrina and broken levees caused catastrophic flooding in Louisiana. Most nursing homes did not evacuate...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Alzheimer's Disease: African American and Hispanic Survey Results

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“The older I get, the less I remember. She’s getting old and forgetful. His mind goes blank since he turned seventy. Do you hear comme...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Hospice CNA/Nursing Assistant Story: “Little White Box” Video (5:13mins.)

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Sometimes a nursing home patient needs someone to solve a special problem. The urgency becomes especially important when the patient is in h...
Sunday, August 5, 2007

Hospice Spirit Sightings (Video: 3:47 mins.)

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Sightings of spirits are not unusual for hospice patients. I have had several patients tell me about spirits coming to see them. Patients a...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Service-Learning Intergenerational Partnerships: Schools and Nursing Homes (Students' Research Link Included)

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Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes  includes a chapter on service-learning intergenerational partnership...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Elderly Brain Health: It's Never Too Late to Exercise.

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Do you really lose it if you don’t use it? Is it no pain, no healthy brain? That depends on the people you ask. Before you start asking, how...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Hospice in Prison: Inmate Volunteers (Video 4:17 mins.)

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Hospice volunteering continues to evolve and diversify. In previous posts, I have explored hospice volunteers for pets and hospice volunteer...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Culture Change in Nursing Homes: Sexual Orientation (LGBT)

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A supporter of culture change in nursing homes, Barry Berman, the executive director of the Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Foundation, says his...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Cemetery Technology: After Death – What would Grandma say?

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Remember the good old days when you went to the cemetery with relatives to clean Grandma’s grave and leave flowers? Nowadays, this visitatio...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Hospice Care and Advance Directives

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Advance directives are important legal documents that can be completed long before a patient is ill. The healthcare power of attorney, also ...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

Elderly Hurricane Katrina Evacuee (Video 1:27 mins.)

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What happens when you’re ninety-two years old and a Hurricane Katrina evacuee? For many of the elderly, the hardships of evacuating and relo...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Nursing Home Neglect and Abuse

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What causes a staff person in a nursing home to neglect or abuse a patient? There could be several reasons. But there is still no excuse for...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Dementia and Jewish Holocaust Survivors (Audio)

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Dementia refers to a group of conditions that gradually destroy brain cells and lead to mental decline. Many conditions can cause dementia,...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Elderly Healthcare Almost Two Years After Hurricane Katrina (Audio)

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This is an update on healthcare of the elderly and others in New Orleans, my hometown, almost two years after Hurricane Katrina. What New Or...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Nursing Home Technology: Wii Video Game (Video 58 secs.)

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During the past year, something unexpected has enhanced the culture change in some senior citizen communities. That phenomenon is the playin...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Hospice and Nursing Home Poem: "World Champion"

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It occurred to me that I’ve never shared one of my hospice volunteer poems with you. A mute patient, whose legs were amputated due to severe...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Hospice and Nursing Home Writing: Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes (Loving Healing Press, Sept. 2007)

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For those who enjoy writing, hospice work can be a great source of inspiration. I have always been fascinated by the written word and the i...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

Hospice-Palliative Care and Music Therapy (Audio)

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Think of all the ways music positively impacts your life. Perhaps it spurs you on during an aerobics class, makes you smile when it whisks y...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Nursing Home Humor (Video 2:23 mins.)

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So many negative stories circulate about nursing homes, sometimes we need to be reminded of the good times that happen there. From giggles t...
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