AT Home Care & Hospice
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
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.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. Many of them aren’t enrolled in hospice before they die. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
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?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
We have a pediatric specialty, and on the flip side, we have many, many of our patients are in the older adult population and we don’t really take into account some of the complexities of that care in the same way, and I really wanted to learn about hospice and palliative care and how to best guide patients. So just- Eric: Terrible.
GeriPal
JUNE 16, 2022
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. . Chrissy: Hospice? Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. Let’s just dig into what the problem is with that renewed focus on quality in hospice.
Home Care Pulse
JUNE 27, 2023
I mean, whether you’re, you have a background in inpatient rehab or skilled nursing facilities or home health or hospice, or even physicians and physician groups. Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs?
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