Documentation Challenges in Geriatrics

• Conducting and documenting comprehensive multi-domain geriatric assessments
• Tracking functional status, fall risk, and activities of daily living across visits
• Managing polypharmacy with deprescribing rationale documentation
• Documenting nuanced advance care planning and goals-of-care conversations
• Coordinating documentation across multiple caregivers and care settings

Note Types for Geriatrics

• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

  Multi-domain evaluation covering medical, functional, cognitive, psychosocial, and environmental domains

• Progress Notes

  Follow-up visits with functional status tracking, medication review, and care coordination updates

• Advance Care Planning

  Goals-of-care discussion documentation with decision-making capacity assessment and directives

• Cognitive Assessments

  MoCA, MMSE, and functional cognitive evaluations with staging and care recommendations

Key Features for Geriatrics

• Functional Assessment

  Documents ADLs, IADLs, mobility, and fall risk with longitudinal tracking

• Polypharmacy Review

  Identifies high-risk medications with Beers Criteria screening and deprescribing documentation

• Cognitive Tracking

  MoCA and MMSE scoring with longitudinal trends and stage documentation

• Care Coordination

  Documents caregiver involvement, home services, and transitions of care

Stats

• 3 min - Full CGA Notes
• 55% - Time Saved
• 100% - ACP Documentation
• 30% - More Patient Time

Testimonial

A comprehensive geriatric assessment touches every domain — medical, functional, cognitive, social. Scribeable captures it all while I sit face-to-face with my patients and their families. That presence matters in geriatrics.