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The Top 4 Things You Need to Know About Best Friends

People with dementia deserve the best care. And what they need most of all is someone dedicated to helping them feel safe, secure, and valued—at all stages of the disease. But being a dementia caregiver is an incredibly challenging role. The Best Friends™ approach is designed to help caregivers in…
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Inside The Best Friends Staff, Second Edition

The second edition of the bestselling staff training tool from the Best Friends™ product suite is packed with resources to help staff in dementia care gain the required skills and confidence to deliver optimal care and succeed in this challenging caregiver role. Here, we break down the contents of the…
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How Can The Best Friends Staff Work for Me?

The Best Friends Staff: Learning to Deliver Exceptional Dementia Care focuses on the education and training for professionals learning to create an outstanding memory care program. The book is written for a wide audience of individuals working in long-term care settings, such as in-home services, adult day centers, assisted living,…
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In My Own Voice: Pre-death Restlessness

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and HPP will be joining organizations across the nation to raise awareness for hospice and demonstrate its importance. In our Hospice Perspectives Series, people share their stories of hospice care. While these stories do feature death, they also feature profound hope, compassion,…
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‘At Last I Found You:’ The Powerful Effect of Namaste Care

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and HPP will be joining organizations across the nation to raise awareness for hospice and demonstrate its importance. In our Hospice Perspectives Series, people share their stories of hospice care. While these stories do feature death, they also feature profound hope, compassion,…
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What is Hospice?

Many misconceptions surround hospice care. Here are just a few examples of what hospice is, and how it is distinctive among modern medical disciplines.
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Developing LGBT-Friendly Communities

The losses associated with moving into a long-term care setting are compounded for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) population. Older LGBT persons have faced a lifetime of discrimination, many live alone without family support, and most have a distrust of the medical community. These individuals are fearful of the…
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Employment Interviewing Federal Guidelines INFOGRAPHIC

Read the book! Becoming an Effective Leader in Healthcare Management The 12 Essential Skills Second Edition By Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D. Copyright © 2017 by Health Professions Press, Inc. Learn and master the 12 critical interpersonal, financial, and organizational healthcare management…
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5 Steps to Achieve Staff Stability

Read the book! A Long-Term Care Leader’s Guide to High Performance Doing Better Together By Cathie Brady, M.S., David Farrell, M.S.W., L.N.H.A., and Barbara Frank, M.P.A. Copyright © 2018 by Health Professions Press, Inc.  Implement leadership practices and systems for continuous quality improvement in…
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