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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? Or do you want to go to the hospital if something happens?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Bruce: Sure.

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