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

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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?

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How Palliative Care Is Changing in Today’s Health Care Environment

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However, he also emphasized the challenge of deploying skilled professionals to the home-based arena, where he said the best providers typically have combined skills in primary care, palliative care and even geriatrics. “We The integration of technology into palliative care services and research is also on the rise, according to experts. “In

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

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Remedying this dilemma could involve providing nursing teams with more information about the patients in general, including their medical diagnoses and past patterns of health care utilization, Singh said. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Obstacles and Opportunities for Palliative Care in the ICU

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A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. However, when evaluated through randomized clinical trials, the results tend to lean toward mediocre. I think the measures we have, it’s not so much that they’re wrong, but they certainly are imprecise,” Dr. Kathleen M.

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Psychological Trauma Can Worsen Symptom Burden at End-of-Life

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Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics. Data on the pain and symptom impacts are a “useful starting point” for hospice and palliative care providers to shape their trauma-informed care approaches, Kotwal.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I mean, hearkening back to the Uncanny Valley, we would like it if people were machines and we just gave them information and they spat out a response. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.