Episode 8 - PT to the rescue!
Richard’s physical therapist Jennifer has saved his life…more than once! Jennifer keeps an eye on Richard and, with training, persistence, and ingenuity, helps him keep it together.
Richard learns to manage his disease, build strength and endurance, and maneuver his wheelchair, under Jennifer’s expert supervision. She adapts his therapy sessions to his small apartment, while the exercise room is shutdown due to an outbreak of COVID-19 in his senior living residents.
If only every older adult had a health professional to help them manage their chronic conditions.
Links:
On chronic conditions, self-management, and challenges in caring for people with chronic conditions:
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_policy/adult_chronic_conditions.htm
- https://www.cdc.gov/learnmorefeelbetter/programs/general.htm
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876976/
- https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2010/01/chronic-care.html
- https://www.giaging.org/documents/mcc_framework.pdf
On excess deaths during pandemic:
On adults living alone:
On problems with long term care facilities:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/sunday/covid-nursing-homes.html?smid=em-share
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2018/02/05/what-we-dont-know-but-should-about-assisted-living-facilities/?sh=359b6ac4e043
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nursinghomes-speci/special-report-pandemic-exposes-systemic-staffing-problems-at-u-s-nursing-homes-idUSKBN23H1L9
- https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/689302.pdf
Music Credits:
The Zeppelin, Delamine, and Crumbtown by Blue Dot Sessions
Gravitation by Blastculture https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ToucanMusic/Best_Bytes_Volume_4/08_blastculture_gravitation
Conversations between a dad and his children capture the sheer joy of talking, singing, and laughing with Richard, a man of simple pleasures, expansive intelligence, historical perspective, and progressive politics. In Season 1, Richard is living under lockdown in his senior living residence during the coronavirus pandemic. It tells the story of Richard’s resilience and of the family’s efforts to ease the psychic impact of his isolation. In Season 2, Margaret asks Richard why he talked so much about vocation when she was growing up. Richard offers the wide arc of his theological understanding—from the need to care for working people to the cosmic Spirit that holds the universe together. They decided to devote an entire podcast season to vocation.
Richard’s physical therapist Jennifer has saved his life…more than once! Jennifer keeps an eye on Richard and, with training, persistence, and ingenuity, helps him keep it together.
Links:
On chronic conditions, self-management, and challenges in caring for people with chronic conditions:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_policy/adult_chronic_conditions.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/learnmorefeelbetter/programs/general.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876976/
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2010/01/chronic-care.html
https://www.giaging.org/documents/mcc_framework.pdf
On excess deaths during pandemic:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm
On adults living alone:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/10/older-people-are-more-likely-to-live-alone-in-the-u-s-than-elsewhere-in-the-world/
On problems with long term care facilities:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/sunday/covid-nursing-homes.html?smid=em-share
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2018/02/05/what-we-dont-know-but-should-about-assisted-living-facilities/?sh=359b6ac4e043
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nursinghomes-speci/special-report-pandemic-exposes-systemic-staffing-problems-at-u-s-nursing-homes-idUSKBN23H1L9
https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/689302.pdf
Music Credits:
The Zeppelin, Delamine, and Crumbtown by Blue Dot Sessions
Gravitation by Blastculture https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ToucanMusic/Best_Bytes_Volume_4/08_blastculture_gravitation
