Disability in the home: Podcast with Sarah Szanton and Kenny Lam

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Apr 22, 2021 · 39m

We know from study after study that most older adults would prefer to age in place, in their homes, with their families and embedded in their communities. But our health system is in many ways not particularly well set up to help people age in place. Medicare does not routinely require measurement or tracking of disability that leads many people to move out of their homes, and many interventions that support people to age in place are unfunded, underfunded, or funded by philanthropy rather than the government.

Today we talk with Sarah Szanton, who created the CAPABLE multi-disciplinary model…