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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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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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Passed in 2018, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care (CHRONIC) Act widened supportive avenues for social determinants of health among seriously ill populations. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. In the second year of the program, the organization is specifically seeking to engage more hospices. About 12% of the 2.1

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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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If geriatrics is on there, so are we. I am still surprised this Tweet happened as recently as 2018! hpm — Kayla Sheehan, MD (@kksheehan) July 23, 2018 I do not expect that to happen in the future. by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age! Spread the word! If rheumatology is on there, so are we.

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. The providers are participating in the Illinois House Care Project, an initiative by the Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI).

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

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There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. So I agree.