MedCity News August 7, 2024
As many as 25 percent of all ER visits by older adults come from people with dementia. A better alternative is urgent medical response at home – working with seniors in their own familiar place without the pressures, distractions, or costs of a bustling ER. Or the endless wait times.
If we didn’t know it before the pandemic, we definitely know it now: Hospitals save lives, but they also expose us to new and unanticipated health problems.
Emergency rooms are full of stories about the grandmother who checked in with a routine broken wrist that turned into a cascading series of medical woes such as fever, infection, incontinence, and ultimately a loss of independence.
During the pandemic, health...
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