Prescription for Admission
Prescription for Admission
Podcast Description
Permission for Admission is your insider’s guide to navigating the hospital experience with confidence. Hosted by Dr. Monique Nugent, a hospitalist and healthcare expert, this podcast pulls back the curtain on what really happens inside hospital walls. From breaking down medical mysteries to helping you advocate for yourself or your loved ones, we bring you real talk, expert insights, and candid conversations with healthcare professionals. Whether you're a patient, caregiver, or medical professional, you'll walk away informed, empowered, and ready to take control of your hospital journey.
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Content Themes
Focuses on various aspects of hospital care with specific episodes like the role of hospitalists, patient empowerment strategies, and the challenges of discharge planning. The series highlights the importance of family involvement, integrated healthcare systems, and the real-life implications of hospital medicine in the patient journey.
Are you struggling to care for your parents’ medical needs and find their hospital admissions end in more frustration than help?
If you’re tired of managing hospital admissions alone. Dr. Nugent will guide you through each stage of a hospitalization so you can plan ahead and advocate for your parents to get the best care possible.
Tune in to discover how to get the best possible care for your parents while navigating the hospital admission and discharge process.
If you’re ready to feel less overwhelmed during a hospitalization. Hit play on the most recent episode NOW.
What if doing more for your aging loved one isn’t always the same thing as doing what’s best for them?
In this episode of Prescription for Admission, I’m joined by geriatrician and memory specialist Dr. Mia Yang for a conversation I’ve been looking forward to having for a long time.
We talk about what a geriatrician is and why seeking a geriatric specialist matters, especially when an older adult has multiple medical conditions, is experiencing functional changes, or is showing signs of memory loss.
One of the biggest things I want families to take away from this conversation is that more is not always better. Sometimes our job is to step back and ask: Is this treatment going to extend someone’s lifespan, or improve their healthspan—the amount of time they live with independence and quality of life?
We also talk about what happens after a hospitalization and why an older adult may leave the hospital looking very different than how they did before the hospital, and that it can take weeks or even months to understand what their new baseline will be.
And then there’s delirium. I see it all the time in the hospital, and I know how frightening it can be for families. Dr. Yang shares a simple framework called YES DEAR that provides families and clinicians with a practical way to think through common contributors to delirium.
Yes DEAR:
D: drugs
E: ears/eyes – hearing aides/glasses
A: ambulate
R: retention of urine or stool
About Dr. Mia Yang
Dr. Mia Yang is a geriatrician and memory specialist passionate about the care of older adults and their families, particularly those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. She is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine with extensive clinical experience in caring for patients in the home, memory clinics, and hospital settings. She hosts and produces her own podcast, Ask Dr. Mia: Navigating Dementia Caregiving, to spread knowledge about memory loss, dementia, and caregiving, particularly for sandwich-generation caregivers for their aging parents. She was inspired to launch the podcast after her own experience supporting her late mother with metastatic cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
Connect with Dr. Mia at www.miayangmd.com
Listen to her Podcast: Ask Dr. Mia: Navigating Dementia Caregiving, available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or directly on her website.
Follow her on social media: Facebook, Instagram.
Prescription for Admission is a podcast for Gen X and Millennial family caregivers navigating the healthcare system and medical system for loved ones living with conditions like diabetes, dementia, cancer, heart disease, and cognitive decline, helping them understand hospital care, navigate hospital stays, work effectively with doctors and specialists, organize medical records, connect with a case manager, seek a second opinion, become an effective medical advocate, and improve care coordination and discharge planning.
Visit my website: www.drmoniquenugent.com
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