Elissa Kozlov
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Jan 2020
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If you have more time, there are specifically uh there are specific scales that are more tailored to an older, sicker population.
Um, for example, the uh hospital anxiety and depression scale, the HADS as it's called, or the geriatric depression scale can be a little bit more precise with these populations.
Um but I really think, you know
that asking questions about it is a is just a really important first step, especially for clinicians who maybe don't have all the scales available to them.
Ask, you know, have have you been able to connect with your family?
Are you
Um, are you feeling isolated?
Are there things that have been on your mind that you don't feel like you can talk about?
Have you felt sad or down or blue most of the day, nearly every day for the last two weeks?
These sort of bread and butter questions to kind of get at what is your patient's emotional state?
And how can we improve it?
I do just wanna add, you know, I think in the context of end of life, sometimes it can be
Okay to not have a ton of hope because you might actually have a pretty grim progno prognosis.
And so it can be difficult to have hope in the face of a grim prognosis.
But one of the things I always look for are are the symptoms of distress and dysfunction.
Are they interfering with your life?
Right?
I can be hopeless about my future, but still really enjoy my present.
Right, I can I can still be able to engage with my family and enjoy my hobbies while knowing full well that my
That my illness is incurable, and I've seen that clinically quite a lot.
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