When He Can't Tell The Doctor What's Wrong, Try This | #220

When your person has aphasia and ends up in the hospital, who tells the doctor where it hurts? One app lets him say it himself, one tap at a time.

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People with communication barriers face three times the risk of adverse events in the hospital, and that risk has nothing to do with why they were admitted. Speech-language pathologist Hilary Sample joins me to show how MedConcerns gives doctors, nurses, and you a way to ask the usual questions with pictures he can point to and a quick yes or no check after every answer. She shares the story of a man who went to the ER three times with severe hip pain before anyone learned it was a broken hip, and what he could finally say once he had the right tool. You will also hear what the Life Participation Approach means at the hospital bedside, and the exact words to use when a provider keeps asking questions your person has no way to answer.

Try MedConcerns Symptom AAC on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/medconcerns-symptom-aac/id1604715254

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Why Communication Barriers Raise Hospital Risk

1:50 Discovering the Communication Gap

3:03 Building MedConcerns

5:33 How the MedConcerns App Works

9:11 Systemic Barriers in Healthcare

10:35 The Interpreter Analogy

11:03 MedConcerns Pro for Hospitals

11:39 How a Doctor Uses MedConcerns

13:35 The Broken Hip Story

15:42 Adverse Events & Safety Risk

18:34 What is LPAA?

20:48 The PT Mobility Analogy

22:05 Your Right to Communicate

23:32 Where to Get MedConcerns

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