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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? Mazie: Yes.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. So I think that the evidence is starting to get there.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Get the hospice referral.

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