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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Like, I’ve had people who’ve appointed their super as their healthcare decision makers and certainly, I mean, I feel like every, every time we talk about what’s changed in, in day to day life, we reflect on Covid. And boy, I haven’t been able to work with them to find somebody to help them make a decision.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. Kate: Sure.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

So these different standardized measures that patients can complete either right before their appointment or during their appointment right before they see the doctor or something like this, and it’s kind of standardized. Eric: What’s a PRO? Des: Sorry, patient reported outcome measure.