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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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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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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

So by definition, if you have MCI, you’re not dependent on other people. By definition, you have dementia, you may not be able to. Mostly people use like a quick ADL IDL checklist and for function and a mini cog. You can get along without too much help or any. And we give a variety of validated tools.

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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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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

Documentation errors are definitely one of the top reasons why it brings regulatory attention to a hospice’s doorstep. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. Ultimately, that results in clinician satisfaction and clinician retention.

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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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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.