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The engAGED Social Engagement Innovations Hub houses best and emerging social engagement programs. Searchable by a variety of filters—including social engagement intervention type, geographic area served or partners involved—the Innovations Hub gives you access to replicable examples to inspire and inform your organization’s social engagement efforts. Each program summary within the Innovations Hub contains all you need to know about that particular program, such as partners involved, outcomes demonstrated, lessons learned, resources needed and contact information to learn more.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has published a white paper related to goal-aligned care. The paper discusses how goal attainment scaling, a method organizations can use to document, monitor, and help people make progress on personalized goals extensively used in research, can be considered in quality measurement. NCQA convened multidisciplinary experts to review the current landscape of goal attainment scaling, discuss implementation methodologies and gain a better understanding of best practices implementing the method with diverse audiences.

The National Commission on Correctional Health Care recognizes the importance of effectively caring for the

It is estimated that by 2030 there will be approximately 7 million LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. who are 50 and older. LGBTQ+ older people face unique challenges as we age. LGBTQ+ elders are: Twice as likely to be single and live alone, four times less likely to have children, far more likely to have faced discrimination and social stigma, and more likely, therefore, to face poverty and homelessness, and to have poor health.

In this GeriPal podcast (44:53 minutes), Melisa Wong, a geriatric oncologist, and Louise Walter, a geriatrician and leader in cancer screening for older adults, talk about the shifting landscape of geriatric oncology, including: 1) How to think about cancer screening in older adults, moving beyond a one-size-fits all age-based approach to individualize cancer screening decisions.

In the GeriPal podcast (48:38 minutes), Deborah Ejem, a medical sociologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama Birmingham, and Deep Ashana, a pulmonary critical care physician and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University, discuss structural, institutional, and interpersonal racism as well as how these different but related constructs negatively impact the care of older adults and people with serious illness.

In this GeriPal podcast (49:17 minutes), Juliet Jacobsen and Rachelle Bernacki discuss the ongoing debate in academic circles about the value Advance Care Planning (ACP), how to think about definitions of ACP vs serious illness communication, what should go into high quality conversations, the evidence for and against any of this, and ultimately where we go from here. Also included is a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication.

Based on an earlier study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital, in this GeriPal podcast (46:44 minutes), Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert discuss their own research and the 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.

In this GeriPal podcast (55:57 minutes) guests Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold discuss advance care planning.

Age-related hearing loss affects about 2/3rd of adults over age 70 years and that self-reported hearing loss increases during the last years of life. 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. In this GeriPal podcast (49:37 minutes), Nick Reed and Megan Wallhagen discuss hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care.