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In this week’s podcast we talk about food insecurity in older adults with UCSF’s Hilary Seligman, MD. Hilary has done pioneering work in this area. Some of this work was funded by Archstone Foundation (full disclosure: Archstone is a GeriPal funder).

Hilary's expertise runs the gamut from federal nutrition programs (including SNAP), food banking and the charitable feeding network, hunger policy, food affordability and access, and income-related drivers of food choice.

I have a confession.  I knew almost nothing about food insecurity before this podcast.  Is it hunger? Why should we think about food insecurity and health in the same sentence? Why is this an issue for older adults in particular?

I was absolutely blown away by what I learned in this podcast. I have since quoted Hilary Seligman 4 or 5 times in other meetings.

Food insecurity is one of those topics that people don’t talk about but is likely far more critical to the health and well-being of the people we care about tha…

Should Geriatric Assessments be part of the routine ontological care for older adults with cancer?   On this weeks podcast we attempt to answer this question with national experts in Geriatric Oncology: Dr. Supriya Mohile from the University of Rochester and William Dale from City of Hope, as well as UCSF's Melissa Wong.

Lucky for us, they also have a little evidence on their side thanks to a recently published JAMA Oncology article that they authored titled "Communication With Older Patients With Cancer Using Geriatric Assessment - A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial".  We discuss not only the trial results, but also:
reasons why geriatric principles is important in oncologywhat a geriatric assessment includeswho should do a geriatric assessment (including does it need a geriatrician?) We also talk about these resources if you want to take a deeper dive in geriatric oncology:
ASCO's Geriatric Oncology pageASCO's guideline for geriatric oncology
by: Eric Widera (@…