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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.” An understanding of how people express growing frailty and/or difficulty handling ADLs and IALDs. Addressing frailty is essential on many fronts.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

And I think, you know, we, we come on these webinars, we listen, you know, to the industry leaders. 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? And I think that there is opportunity there. Absolutely.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Home health aide at 25 to 50 bucks an hour is, actually, a very inexpensive, and well-worth input for people who need help with ADLs and the like. We have, about, monthly webinars. It probably costs between two and three grand a day, your bill in the hospital. It’s funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation.

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