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

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. Alex: Yeah.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. There are some subtleties there.

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