Pilot Testing PICTURE-THIS

Discharge plans include scheduling post-discharge appointments, community support referrals, transportation arrangements, and addressing identified gaps. Transition care includes 8 check-ins over 3 months post-discharge, focusing on assessing, troubleshooting, and celebrating transition successes, using phone or video. Telehealth-assisted 'warm hand-offs' will connect interventionists with home health and primary care teams during initial visits. '1st touch daytime troubleshooting' offers extra support between check-ins. Problem-solving rehabilitation will be continued from hospital to home, with 7-10 sessions over 3 months, including a home safety survey. A Post-ICU Caregiver Toolkit provides workbooks, training videos, and resources. Lastly, referrals for patient and caregiver social/mental health support are provided.

Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) control group will receive: (1) Patient and Family Re-sources published by the SCCM for PICS prior to hospital discharge; (2) ongoing assessments on the same schedule as the PICTURE-THIS intervention; (3) referral for urgent or emergent issues identified during assessments. The investigators will not provide the URL for the Post-ICU Caregiving Toolkit but the investigators will not restrict its access either. This control design balances 3 goals: 1) masking participants to group allocation; 2) responding ethically to harm/distress; 3) maintaining group separation to optimize efficacy testing of PICTURE-THIS.

All participants receive a Run-In Phase during the acute critical illness hospitalization. It consists of 3 inpatient study visits: (1) health and social screening; (2) planning for rehabilitation; (3) discharge education and training.