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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. Actually, we’ll have a podcast coming out in a couple of weeks on behavioral health in palliative care. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. David: Exactly.

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

GeriPal

It is a screening? 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. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. Eric 14:24 So it’s hard to improve resource utilization for these people where some of them didn’t sound like the sickest of people admitting them to the hospital, but all had some type of serious illness. We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.

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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. So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Rachelle: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Diane: Yeah.