Asking a client about their end-of-life wishes can feel uncomfortable, even for seasoned professionals. Yet older adults may be less afraid of dying than of upsetting their loved ones. Health professionals can help by creating ...
Part 2: Strategies for Combatting Polypharmacy
In the previous blog, Polypharmacy: Geriatric Health Crisis on the Rise, we looked at factors that are fueling the rise in polypharmacy, defined as the simultaneous use of five or more prescription drugs, over-the-counter (OTC) ...
Part 1: Polypharmacy: Geriatric Health Crisis on the Rise
“In the United States, we’ve been taught to expect that there’s a pill for everything, and modern medicine has often delivered on that expectation,” said Dr. Nick Schneeman, Lifesprk Chief Medical Officer. “It’s also contributed ...
Lifesprk Wins National Top Workplaces Industry Award
It says a lot about an organization when your people (voluntarily and anonymously) give you kudos for your workplace culture, career advancement opportunities, pay and benefits, training and mentorship, commitment to innovation, and overall job ...
Join Us for an Ethics CEU: Ethical Issues Amid a Pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic has heightened our awareness of the myriad moral and ethical dilemmas facing healthcare workers, from home health aides to hospice caregivers. According to certified hospice and palliative care nurse, Lores Vlaminck, ...
Conversations You Can Have about Diabetes, COVID, and Living a Sparked Life With Your Client
Lifesprk’s Diabetes Awareness Campaign Supporting You And Your Clients and Families November is National Diabetes Awareness Month but given that one in four adults (26.8%) age 65 and older has type 2 diabetes, Lifesprk is ...
Frank Conversations: Daughter Wishes Her Mom Had Entered Hospice Sooner
Decades ago, my mother was dying in a small hospital in southern Minnesota. Meighan, my sister, was sitting in the hall outside of her room when a hospice nurse paid a first visit. Here’s what ...
Breaking Down Barriers to Transform Senior Care
Remember when Amazon sold only books, Netflix rented DVDs by mail, and Lifesprk was a scrappy little private-pay home care agency? Since their modest beginnings, all three have not only changed their business models, they’ve ...
Are you facing a lay-off due to COVID-19 and seeking a fresh start?
Lifesprk is ready to spark your life! Join our team! For many of us, this year did not go as planned. But at the same time, perhaps it has given us permission to pause and ...
Lifesprk Adds Hospice, Natural Extension to Whole Life Experience
Helping people age magnificently doesn’t end when a terminal or serious diagnosis is given. We believe it’s in those times a spark is needed most. There is so much we can do within late life ...
