Social Isolation and the Impacts on Healthcare (21 September 2020)
- Author
- [email protected] (Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh)
- Published
- Mon 21 Sep 2020
- Episode Link
- https://soundcloud.com/rcpedin/social-isolation-and-the-impacts-on-healthcare
Dr Adelina Mcleod and Dr Alisha Khanna discuss the prevalence of social isolation in an ageing population, the impacts of COVID-19 on Geriatric Medicine, and how hospital-based care could change to better support elderly patients.
Dr Khanna has just completed FY1, now an FY2 working in London.
Dr Mcleod is Chair or the RCPE T&MC committee, and specialty trainee in geriatrics with a specialist interest in cognition and delirium.
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