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

GeriPal

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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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

Pallimed

If geriatrics is on there, so are we. We should be including this in our presentations on Hospice and Palliative Medicine 101, or frankly anytime we are asked to speak to outside audiences. I am still surprised this Tweet happened as recently as 2018! by Christian Sinclair ( @ctsinclair ) We have entered a new age!

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Hospices Pursue Home-Base Primary Care Via HCCI Project

Hospice News

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

GeriPal

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.

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

GeriPal

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. As is the case for many issues in geriatrics: some of the time, not all the time. Emmy: Thank you so much for having me.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? We can work it out! AlexSmithMD. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.