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Frailty Assessments

AT Home Care & Hospice

As Mills said, “Evidence shows that age, frailty, chronic disease load, and ADL dependency are predictive of mortality, hospitalization, and total cost.” A commonly used and accepted definition. An understanding of how people express growing frailty and/or difficulty handling ADLs and IALDs.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. Sweet Caroline. Sarguni: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

James: Definitely not-. Eric: Yeah, this is definitely… If you grew up in the ’80s, this is the slow dancing song. It predicts mortality, it predicts time to walking disability, so time until someone can’t walk across a room, and time to ADL disability. Alex Smith: Were you alive when this song came out?

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How To Boost Your Home Health Nursing Orientation For Free

The Productive Home Health Nurse

Especially because Hilary definitely told you that she had 2 weeks worth of orientation and preceptor time. The main caveat for this benefit is that the patients that we see must qualify as being “homebound” per Medicare standards and definitions. Killin’ it! Hmmm, what’s really going on here…??!!

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Like any place else, they don’t use the same operational definition of what we might. But the most striking thing to me was definitely that they would give you different quotes based on who called. And in that, they found it significantly improved ADL function and life space. ” And I said, “Oh. Eric: Okay.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

We also discuss Scott’s recently published paper in JAGS that showed that older men with lower urinary tract symptoms have increased risk of developing mobility and activities of daily living (ADL) limitations, perhaps due to greater frailty phenotype. . Sounds like everybody didn’t have mobility and ADL issues from the start.

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The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022

Home Care Pulse

How to motivate your caregivers with it: You can be known as the agency that prepares, equips, and advances their employees simply by reconstructing your definition of training. If you want to keep loyal employees, invest in their individual potential by enabling them to specialize in topics of their choice.

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