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“Health care is a tale of being upstream or being downstream. If you’re downstream, you’re at the end of the river pulling people out of the current right before they hit the rapids. You can save a good number of people that way. But if you’re upstream, you stop them from falling into the river in the first place and you save a good deal more.”
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“Times reporter wrote that: “… under pressure to reduce costs while improving quality, a handful of hospital systems have embarked on an unusual experiment: they are taking the house call to the extreme, offering hospital-level treatment at home to patients … who in the past would have been routinely placed in a hospital room. And as awareness spreads of the dangers that hospitalization may pose, particularly to older adults, patients are enthusiastically seizing the opportunity …”
― The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults
― The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults
“Health care is a tale of being upstream or being downstream.
If you’re downstream, you’re at the end of the river pulling people out of the current right before they hit the rapids. You can save a good number of people that way.
But if you’re upstream, you stop them from falling into the river in the first place and you save a good deal more.”
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If you’re downstream, you’re at the end of the river pulling people out of the current right before they hit the rapids. You can save a good number of people that way.
But if you’re upstream, you stop them from falling into the river in the first place and you save a good deal more.”
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“illness and need palliative relief from suffering. Many common elements of palliative and geriatric medicine include diagnosis, identification of patient needs and sources of distress, creation of a care plan through shared decision-making, and helping people through their health care journey in a complex and confusing system.”
― The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults
― The Aging Revolution: The History of Geriatric Health Care and What Really Matters to Older Adults
“Adversity can smother hopes. It can crush people. But it can also inspire and motivate.”
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“An innovative spirit, long a core characteristic of American medicine, is as strong or perhaps even stronger as ever.”
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“The outbreak of a disease doesn’t mean your life should come to a halt and your health should suffer. You should continue exercising and eating well. Get good sleep. Use relaxation techniques and listen to the experts and health care providers”
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