Geriatric assessment tools, including CGA, offer superior prognostic value over traditional performance measures in older DLBCL patients. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reveal frailty levels, ...

A free tool aims to increase oncologists’ use of formal geriatric assessments (GAs) in older patients with cancer. Such assessments seek to measure factors beyond age that can affect a patient’s risk ...

To develop and implement a continuing professional development (CPD) activity focused on geriatric assessment (GA) in oncology for oncologists and geriatricians. We evaluated the impact of this ...

Dr. Cris Bergerot and Dr. Enrique Soto join the podcast to discuss the new global guideline on geriatric assessment. This guideline provides evidence-based, resource-stratified recommendations across ...

Suchitra Sundaram, MD, reflects on a prospective study presented at ASH 2023 that investigated the use of geriatric assessment tools to better gauge which patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma will ...

A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

"It’s easy to think that because you have been treating multiple myeloma (or cancer in general) for a long time and have a lot of experience, you may not need formal assessment tools to recognize the ...

Older people often have multiple and complex care needs, so assessing them is a highly skilled activity. Their health issues and care needs are sometimes summed up in ‘catchy’ phrases, but it is ...

Saint Louis University's Gateway Geriatric Education Center (GEC) provides tools and resources that promote the health and well-being of older adults. The GEC educates and empowers students, health ...

Saint Louis University’s Gateway Geriatric Education Center develops leading-edge education for current and future geriatric professionals. It has been funded by the Health Resources and Services ...