Ken Covinsky previously posted on GeriPal a while back about the dangers of hospitalization in older adults. Ken notes in that post that hospitalization is a vulnerable period leading to major new disability for many older adults. More recently, Ken, GeriPal contributor Bree Johnston, and honorary GeriPal member Edgar Pierluissi authored a terrific article about hospital-associated disability in one of those pre-blogging era, old-fashioned periodicals...JAMA.I'm not going to be able to sum up this meaty piece of scholarship in this post. Let me say only that if you care for hospitalized older adults, and can only read one article that changes for the better how you care for them, this would be that article. Let me relay some of the disruptive perspectives offered:
via geripal.org