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

GeriPal

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. 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.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Emmy: Sometimes there are adaptive equipment solutions, particularly if there’s a physical impairment.

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

GeriPal

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. So there is this overlap. For me that kind of was able to put my head around that. Alex, is it okay if I ask?

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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. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record. Eric 22:03 Okay.

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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 physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. Get the hospice referral. But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself.

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