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

Home Care Pulse

Before joining Home Well Care Services in 2016, today, Michelle equips Home Well’s franchise owners with purposeful brand programs and industry leading training to help them differentiate their agencies. Laura Coyle ( 07:01 ): You know, they are going in at the start of care, looking at the home. Are they safe?

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. One of the criteria was needing help with three or more activities of daily living, things like bathing, getting in or out of bed, toileting, walking across the room, or needing help with two or more AdL’s, plus the presence of wandering or like constant need for supervision.

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

GeriPal

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? And in that, they found it significantly improved ADL function and life space. You want to go back, I know this is pre-pandemic. You got to go way back in your memory.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. I remember deep in the recesses, 2016, I think it was, a New England Journal piece came out saying that we need to reframe the debate about cost. So they basically stayed housed. Eric: So I’ve got a question for you. Margot: Yeah. That was me. Eric: That was you?