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

GeriPal

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. 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? Do you worry about that? This is terrific.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? And do we have entirely a clinician referral-based practice?

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

GeriPal

So, I do think that we have, I think of our team as an overlapping venn diagram or anyone not to be able on, the team ought to be able to listen deeply and provide some of this, but then the chaplain does have these special domains. Eric: LaVera, I got a question for you. Alex, is it okay if I ask? Alex: Yeah. Eric: And lastly, LaVera.

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

GeriPal

Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. So it developed all this issue around what is a qualifying referral that would allow me to do telehealth prescribing?