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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. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different. This is terrific.

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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. That’s one thing that I thought was really helpful and appreciate. Alex, is it okay if I ask?

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

GeriPal

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. So the problem of, hey, look at us, we promise we’ll be helpful.

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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. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I would hope a referral would go to what’s called an ADRC, and it’s called an Aging and Disability Resource Center.

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

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. Get the hospice referral. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. So you need to do them in order.

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