article thumbnail

Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Obviously, I don’t think that symptom monitoring is the same as you wonderful people coming in and taking care of patients and their families. But I think thinking about combined models of care, like can we use palliative care resources if we’re monitoring patient symptoms? ” Right?

article thumbnail

Inside agilon health’s Palliative Care Game Plan

Hospice News

We have an algorithm that can help identify which patients are at risk of having adverse events and which are approaching end of life. Because one of the things we hear from our [primary care providers (PCPs)] is they don’t know how to have conversations with their patients about end of life. Our first partner started in 2018.