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Reducing Prolonged Admissions: Podcast with Kenny Lam, Jessica Eng, Sarah Hooper, and Anne Fabiny
"The secret sauce of the Transitions, Referral and Coordination (TRAC) team was including a lawyer." This is brilliant and will ring true to those of us who care for complex older adults who end up in the hospital for long, long, long admissions.
On today's podcast we talk with Kenny Lam, Jessica Eng, Sarah Hooper, and Anne Fabiny about their successful interdisciplinary intervention to reduce prolonged admissions, published in NEJM Catalyst. Many of the problems that older adults face are not medical. How to find housing. How to stay in their homes. How to get a paid caregiver to help them…
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