Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies Strategic care coordination improves outcomes for patients and providers. Learn how to prioritize care coordination in your agency. Learn More
Mindfulness and Empathy Can Aid Understanding With Noncommunicative Patients When caregivers practice mindfulness and empathy, their focus can enhance care, especially with individuals who are unable to communicate. Learn More
Best Practices for Activities Professionals With effective planning, meaningful activities can help older individuals, both at home and in long term care, thrive to their highest ability level for as long as possible. Learn More
Assisting With IADLS for Direct Care Workers: Getting Started As we celebrate National Nursing Assistants Week we consider the important role direct care workers can play in helping elderly clients maintain their independence. Learn More
Assisted Living Residents With Dementia Respond Best to Person-Centered Care To give good care to assisted living residents with dementia, you must use care that focuses on the specific needs of residents and their abilities — person-centered care. Learn More
Your Healthy Outlook Can Promote Resilience and Recovery in Older Adults Because the health, behavioral, and social parts of life overlap more as one ages, those caring for or serving older adults can make a difference by providing support that considers the whole person. Learn More
Developing an Interdisciplinary, Individualized Plan of Care in Home Health Care Assessment is the first step of the care planning process and begins with collecting, validating, categorizing, summarizing, and interpreting PHI. Learn More
Pediatric Nursing Assessments in the Community and Home Health: Pearls of Wisdom Pediatric assessment tools are a way to ensure content is covered thoroughly when doing a pediatric assessment. Learn More