Hospital Discharge- A Danger to Older Adults?
Posted in Age Related Issues, Care Management, Health Care Reform, Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
When your parent is ready to be discharged from a hospital, short-term help could prevent him or her from being readmitted. About 1 in 5 Medicare patients is re-admitted within 30 days according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Often discharge instructions are not understood, medications are changed (but no one cleans out the [...]