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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. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different.

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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. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Emmy: Yeah.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. What’s in the electronic health record? It works great.

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

GeriPal

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. And I also think, we still operate under pay for… We get paid for the services we provide, right? Eric: Yeah.

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