Reducing Prolonged Admissions: Podcast with Kenny Lam, Jessica Eng, Sarah Hooper, and Anne Fabiny
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\\u201cThe secret sauce of the Transitions, Referral and Coordination (TRAC) team was including a\\xa0 lawyer.\\u201d\\xa0 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\\u2019s 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.\\xa0 Many of the problems that older adults face are not medical.\\xa0 How to find housing.\\xa0 How to stay in their homes.\\xa0 How to get a paid caregiver to help them stay at home.\\xa0 How to get someone to pay bills.\\xa0 How to assign a surrogate health care decision maker.\\xa0 The legal obstacles to accomplishing these tasks for complex older adults, particularly those who may have marginal decision making capacity, can seem insurmountable.\\xa0 Having a lawyer on the team is brilliant - in much the same way that having a handyperson on the team for project CAPABLE to keep people at home was brilliant.\\xa0 For more, listen also to our prior podcast with Sarah Hooper on medical-legal partnerships.
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