#patientcentereddesign — Public Fediverse posts

What’s the point of not choking, if you can only eat puréed food for the rest of your life?

What’s the point of not falling, if you have to leave the home you grew up in?

What’s the point of not getting a blood clot from hormones, if you cannot be your true self?

What’s the point of safety, if life is miserable?

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A patient was told she was getting heartburn because she's getting old

She was 63 years old

Just because someone is getting older
DOES NOT mean that they're supposed to get sick

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Dementia *does not* equal lack of capacity
Dementia *does not* equal lack of capacity
Dementia *does not* equal lack of capacity
Dementia *does not* equal lack of capacity

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Disease guidelines based on numeric age will eventually become obsolete

Better guidelines consider physiologic age
Function
Cognition
Multimorbidity

And most importantly, What Matters to the patient

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A patient was sad today because they’re stuck in the hospital after a fall, was told to go to rehab, but had no way to look after their pet bird

The bird is the only thing living with them for the past 7 years

Pet is family
Health care is multifactorial
We can do better

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Do you have patients who didn’t pass swallow evaluation?

I did today

Until I called family
And retested when family was present

Patient passed in a single try with flying colors

Family is an *integral* part of the patient care team

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We *should* expect patients to pull out IVs&try to get out of bed

It's not normal to be tied to IVs
It's not normal to be in bed all day

Our job *is not* to stop patients from pulling lines/getting out of bed

Our job is to help patients get as close to *normal life* as possible

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A happy reminder that many hospitals in the world 🌟encourage🌟 patients to wear their own clothes, eat in the dining room with other patients, and exercise in group as part of physical therapy

Dignity
Independence
Community

It’s all possible

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