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Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.
In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.
Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. I am constantly talking to clinical social workers about what are the ways that you can be contributing to research, to publications, to scholarship, to presentations, even if it’s a reflection paper?
This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.
Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. Winston 33:31 2013. Winston Chiong and Sean Aas appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Sean 07:41 So picking up a little bit on that, Winston, to give my kind of real answer.
Alex 00:06 Today we’re delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics, author of E lderhood. Alex 00:19 And we have Ken Co vinsky, frequent host, frequent guest on this podcast, who is also in geriatrics at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics.
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