10 Foods to Help Fight the Flu We are officially in the heart of cold and flu season, and it isn’t going away any time soon. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the ominous season lasts from November through April. It has been a brutal one this year, and it seems more uncommon these [...] Read More...
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This presentation is based on the Spark of Life Club program developed and utilized in Australia. This presentation explores the underlying tenets and techniques of the Spark of Life program and explores how they can be used in everyday interactions with residents with dementia to maximize their ability to interact in social and functional situations. [...] Read More...
Let’s face it. Life is really busy. Shuffling the demands of work, family and extracurricular activities can be very overwhelming. Sometimes (okay, a lot of the time), it is necessary to rely on fast food chains to provide our daily nutrition. Sound ironic? It doesn’t have to be. When you must make that drive [...] Read More...
One Pill Makes You Smaller, The Other Makes You Tall – The Over-use of Antipsychotics in Nursing Homes – Part 2
October 2nd, 2012 by knygard
When we left Alice she was over-medicated on antipsychotic medications. How did she get like this? The answer lies in training. CNAs receive brief training, often consisting of a few weeks. LPNs are in school for a discount viagra few months. Neither group receives measureable amounts of training in behavior management or even dementia. The [...] Read More...
One Pill Makes You Taller, the Other Makes You Small – The Over-use of Anti-Psychotics in Nursing Homes
September 25th, 2012 by knygard
This series is intended to help Key therapists deal with the changes that are likely with the new Medicare push to reduce the amount of anti-psychotic medications in nursing homes. Estimates of rates of use range from 27% to 40%. This sounds high, but consider what anti-psychotics were cheapest viagra on line designed for…can you [...] Read More...
In this article from the Sept 2012 issue of Provider Magazine, an expert offers some tips for building a strong MDS team and avoiding Medicare default payments. (written by Judi Kulus, NHA, RN) minding mds accuracy Read More...
If in sixty years from now my son or daughter is admitted to a healthcare facility, how would I want them to be treated? That’s the question I have frequently asked myself over my career as I have worked with patients. I ask myself that because I want to create and maintain a level of [...] Read More...
For all of us in the health care industry, the months of November and December of this year are going to be real nail-biters, hand-wringers, head-bangers… the cliché’s may be overly dramatic, but this fall is going to be doozey. The fate of legislation that will have deep impact on care providers and those we [...] Read More...
When did therapists become used car salesmen, metaphorically speaking? I don’t mean to disparage used car salesmen. I know many good people that work in used car sales. I’m playing off of the old stereotype of used car salesman being shady and lacking in moral character. It seems that therapists are now viewed in that [...] Read More...
‘Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.’ George Eliot You may have experienced a person with dementia picking up a doll or teddy and talking to it, which we traditionally identify as a symptom of dementia. However, from a Spark of Life perspective, this behavior is seen as [...] Read More...