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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? Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? What can you do with the results of a geriatric assessment? Precision medicine?

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

1-800-HOSPICE

Sometimes, we are put into a difficult position of communicating information that involves bad news such as, a poor prognosis or clarifying treatment goals to a family member with an advanced illness. Ask: Determine each patient’s preference for receiving prognostic information. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Then we looked also a little bit long-term at three and six months, and we also looked at caregiver outcomes. Eric: Okay.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Eric: So we are going to be talking about the importance of engaging family members and caregivers and into the, I don’t want to say care, I just said care too many times, into the care of our patients.

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How your home care agency can get started with a referral marketing program

AlayaCare

You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies Other healthcare professionals Senior and geriatric advisors Miscellaneous other sources Are there places outside of the home that you can think of as potential partnership opportunities? One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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How your home care agency can get started with a referral marketing program

AlayaCare

Senior and geriatric advisors. Here are some pieces of information that you should include: What do you offer. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy. Other healthcare professionals.