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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. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier. So John, Mazie, did I miss any?

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting?