How to Succeed at the #ThickenedLiquidChallenge
by: Kelley Babcock, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, @kelleybabcock The #thickenedliquidchallengehas certainly raised awareness of how difficult it can be for patients…
by: Kelley Babcock, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, @kelleybabcock The #thickenedliquidchallengehas certainly raised awareness of how difficult it can be for patients…
by: Kim Evanoski, CMC MPA LMSW Sometimes on the walking trail I get to thinking about my week. The quiet…
by: Stephanie E. Rogers, MD @SERogersMD “The two big unfixables are aging and dying…you can’t fix those,” notes physician-writer Dr…
A recent article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a list of 27 “landmark” peer-reviewed foundational articles…
by: Suzanne Gordon The other day, with much trepidation, I took the Thickened Liquid Challenge. As a well known wimp,…
By Alex Smith @AlexSmithMD and Sarah Stranberg, Speech Pathologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Consider the following vignettes, common in…
There are a lot of people with swallowing difficulty who are currently getting thickened liquids. For instance, in one study…
Our hospice and palliative care team decided this weekend to do the “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This is a simple challenge…
by: Diane Stonecipher, RN As a young nurse, some 30 years ago, I worked in a large academic medical center,…
GeriPal’s very own Alex Smith recently gave an absolutely fabulous “Ted-like” talk in which he made the statement that “prognosis…