GEROS Recap 4/26/19

4/25/2019

Welcome to the Inaugural GEROS Health Recap!
A weekly recap letter that makes it easy for you to better serve older adults. The format of these emails will reflect our plan to help you better serve older adults:

Content that Informs
Community that Inspires
Courses that Deliver

1. Content that Informs

Older adults sustaining hip fractures are unfortunately common in our world, but we don't get to see them all. As it's reported, less than half recover back to PLOF! Are there ways we can help facilitate better outcomes? What is our place with recommending nutrition? Check out Alyssa Kuhn's #oldNOTweak episode - Effectiveness of home based intervention program in reducing mortality of hip fracture patients.
Certain sectors of media are finding creative ways to discuss and highlight issues in aging. Check out Christina Prevett talking about how Grace and Franky are working to highlight Aging Issues & change our perspective of aging.

2. Community that Inspires

Adam Jones shared an awesome, easy to reference, table he made for some functional norms. Print this one off!
Jimmy Stout started a great conversation discussing what equipment Home Health PT/PTA's are bringing into the home to challenge their patients. Even if you're not a Home Health clinician, you'll get some ideas from this one.
Katie O'Bryan wanted to find out how to get weight bearing hip extension with a patient who is quadriplegic. The comments section had some great ideas.
The Game Changers will be having our monthly discussion on April 30th at 8:30p EST Measuring Physical Activity in Our Patients: What & How Much

3. Courses that Deliver

Y'all have a great weekend! Hope this serves you well. Feel free to reply if you found this helpful or what we could do to make it better.
-Dustin Jones, PT, DPT, CF-L1

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