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

GeriPal

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? So we tend to talk in terms of a geriatric assessment, the key domains.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

And also, really like the way that you have identified different kinds of outcomes, spiritual wellbeing with the facet SP, as well as then impact on mental health outcomes or emotional distress outcomes of anxiety and depression. And I think reducing health disparities has been something that’s important in my work.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. All of this is.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. There have been some fabulous national articles. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system.

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

GeriPal

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

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