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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? Jace 29:36 We see higher rates of mental health challenges that I think are due to overcoming adversity. So where I would put it is stress.

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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. A surgeon who is seeing a patient and detects diabetes out of control is not going to say, “Damn the diabetes, get them to the OR now.” So we tend to talk in terms of a geriatric assessment, the key domains.