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Patients will be provided resources for advance care planning and interact with SNF staff and involved providers who may refer them to palliative care or hospice like previous rigorous palliative care trials.",null,[24],{"type":6,"name":25,"description":26,"armGroupLabels":27,"otherNames":22},"Assessing and Listening to Individual Goals and Needs (ALIGN)","Assessing and Listening to Individual Goals and Needs (ALIGN). ALIGN utilizes the skills of palliative care social workers (PCSWs) trained in family and systems-level theory to address changing preferences for care, family distress, and to facilitate communication across care transitions to improve care aligned with preferences. A patient navigator supports the patient\u002Fcaregiver and social worker dynamic by helping patients access care and resources. The intervention is implemented virtually in community SNFs and follows patients for 45 days after SNF discharge to reflect real-world patient flow.",[15,9],[29],{"name":30,"affiliation":5,"role":31},"Sarguni Singh, MD","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",[33],{"name":30,"role":34,"phone":35,"phoneExt":22,"email":36},"CONTACT","503.703.0797","sarguni.singh@cuanschutz.edu",[38],{"facility":39,"status":40,"city":41,"state":42,"zip":43,"country":44,"countryCode":45,"cosmosGeoPoint":46,"geoPoint":51,"contacts":52},"University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus","RECRUITING","Aurora","Colorado","80045","United States","US",{"type":47,"coordinates":48},"Point",[49,50],-104.83192,39.72943,{"lat":50,"lon":49},[53,54],{"name":30,"role":34,"phone":35,"phoneExt":22,"email":36},{"name":30,"role":31,"phone":22,"phoneExt":22,"email":22},{"type":56,"investigatorFullName":22,"investigatorTitle":22,"investigatorAffiliation":22,"oldNameTitle":22,"oldOrganization":22},"SPONSOR",[58],{"name":59,"class":60},"National Institute on Aging (NIA)","NIH","100563448","align-for-older-adults-with-cancer-in-snfs-100563448",false,"NCT06616298","ALIGN for Older Adults With Cancer in SNFs","Improving Person-Centered Outcomes for Older Adults With Cancer Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities and Their Family Caregivers","ALIGN","Patients\n\nInclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Adults between 18-98 years\n2. Stage I-IV solid tumors\n3. Discharging from an acute care hospital to a SNF in Colorado\n4. English speaking\n5. Receiving or establishing care at the University of Colorado Cancer Center\n6. If a patient lacks capacity, a legal surrogate decision-maker will be approached to provide proxy consent.\n7. Must have access to the technology needed to complete consenting visit and subsequent intervention visits. This includes internet access through a computer, tablet, or smartphone OR cellular service with adequate allowance of cellular minutes to allow virtual visits.\n8. Must have an email address or caregiver with an email address to facilitate communication during the trial\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Discharging with hospice care\n2. Age less than 18\n3. Lacking capacity without a legal surrogate decision maker or proxy.\n4. Limited English proficiency\n5. Hospitalized for a planned admission or procedure\n6. Have any pschological or physical symptom, medication or other relevant finding prior to randomization, based on the clinical judgement of the PI or relevant clinical study staff that would make a participant unsuitable for the study\n\nCaregivers\n\nInclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Patient-selected\n2. Age ≥ 18\n3. English speaking\n4. Able to complete baseline measures.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Discharging with hospice care\n2. Age ≤ 18\n3. Caregivers with limited English proficiency will be excluded as ALIGN intervention content and documents have only been validated in an English-speaking population.\n4. Have any pschological or physical symptom, medication or other relevant finding prior to randomization, based on the clinical judgement of the PI or relevant clinical study staff that would make a participant unsuitable for the study\n\nSNF Staff\n\nInclusion Criteria:\n\n1\\. Working at a SNF that cared for a patient who received the ALIGN intervention\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1\\. 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The main questions it aims to answer are:\n\n* Can the investigator successfully deliver the ALIGN intervention in different skilled community nursing facilities?\n* Can the investigator successfully collect information from participants throughout the study?\n* How can the investigator best prepare caregivers to make medical decisions for loved ones that become unable to do so themselves?\n\nResearchers will compare ALIGN to care as it is usually delivered.\n\nParticipants will:\n\n* Visit virtually with an ALIGN palliative care social worker every 1-2 weeks during their skilled nursing facility stay and up to 45 days after discharge from the facility or will see a palliative care clinician if recommended by their oncologist or other involved clinician.\n* Participants will provide information about how they are doing 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months after enrolling in the study.",[80],"Advanced Cancer",[82,83],"Skilled Nursing Facility","Caregiver","2026-04-29",{"date":86,"type":87},"2026-05-05","ACTUAL",{"date":89,"type":87},"2025-02-24",{"date":91,"type":74},"2028-08-01",{"name":5,"class":6},1]