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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

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My past boss, Seth Landefeld, wrote a Seminole paper on this back in 1996 in the New England Journal, showing that ACE units improved things like ADLs at discharge, discharged to long-term institutions. JAMA IM 2013, you had a paper that showed what, 300, $400. So before we get into that, ACE units have been around for over 25 years.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. Eric: What excites me about the med students is when I was a med student, I never heard of ADLs or IDLs and we just gave a talk to first or second year of med students. Eric: Okay, Ryan, going to turn to you now. All this weight now is on your shoulder. How long ago?