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Community and Organizations Addressing Financial Toxicity - Part 1 Social Determinants of Health in Cancer Care
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In Part 1 of this episode guest host, Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley, discusses the importance of the community and organizations meant to address the social needs of patients as they navigate their cancer journey and the financial burden on the household following a cancer diagnosis. Dr. Tucker-Seeley is joined by Carla Tardif, Chief Executive Officer at Family Reach and Eucharia Borden: Vice President, Programs and Health Equity at Family Reach, whose mission is to remove the financial barriers standing between cancer patients and their treatment.
TRANSCRIPT
The guest on this podcast episode has no disclosures to declare.
Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley: Hello and welcome to ASCO's Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Care podcast. I am Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley, Vice President of Health Equity at Zero Prostate Cancer and Chair of ASCO's Health Equity and Outcomes Committee. I'm joined today by Carla Tardif, chief executive officer at Family Reach, and Eucharia Borden, vice president of programs and health equity at Family Reach.
In this episode, we will discuss the importance of the community and organizations meant to address the social needs of patients as they navigate their cancer journey. There are many needs that cancer patients face and one of the biggest is the financial burden on the household following a cancer diagnosis.
We are lucky to have two change makers from the organization Family Reach with us here today. Family Reach is an organization in Boston, Massachusetts that dedicates their work to removing financial barriers with financial education, financial planning, resource navigation, and emergency funds to patients and caregivers.
Thank you both for being a part of our Social Determinants of Health podcast series in this episode focused on community and organization.
Carla Tardif: Thank you for having us.
Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley: Let's start the conversation with the question that we like to ask all of our guests. What does social determinants of health and cancer care mean to the both of you?
Carla Tardif: It's a great question and there are so many buzzwords now around this topic, so I really appreciate the opportunity to even define some of them, like social determinants of health, like financial toxicity, like health-related social risks and how are they different and what do they mean. We talk about social determinants of health being more about societal impact on people according to where they are born, live, work, play, and pray. And we talk about financial toxicity as the financial impact that a cancer diagnosis has on a family. Financial toxicity is a word that we say often and that really is about cancer affecting your finances and your finances affecting your cancer. And what does it mean when work is stopped, income is cut, out of pocket expenses, the cost of care, and how does that affect your ability to access care and adhere to treatment which will affect your survival rate? And then I'll pass it to you Eucharia, because I love her definition of social determinants of health.
Eucharia Borden: Thank you so much for having me here today. I think one of the first things that we need to put out there is that our professional language is full of jargon, and patients often don't understand things like social determinants of health, financial toxicity, what do these things mean to them? Which is why at Family Reach, we talk about meeting their basic needs, meeting their needs in areas like food, transportation, housing, and utilities, because that is also something that's important when you're approaching patients and working with patients who really do have financial toxicity - to make sure that you're on the same page with them about what their needs are and therefore what kinds of problems you're helping them to solve.
Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley: My first question is for you, Carla. Can you take us to the beginning? How did Family Reach get started and what led you to work with th
In Part 1 of this episode guest host, Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley, discusses the importance of the community and organizations meant to address the social needs of patients as they navigate their cancer journey and the financial burden on the household following a cancer diagnosis. Dr. Tucker-Seeley is joined by Carla Tardif, Chief Executive Officer at Family Reach and Eucharia Borden: Vice President, Programs and Health Equity at Family Reach, whose mission is to remove the financial barriers standing between cancer patients and their treatment.
TRANSCRIPT
The guest on this podcast episode has no disclosures to declare.
Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley: Hello and welcome to ASCO's Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Care podcast. I am Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley, Vice President of Health Equity at Zero Prostate Cancer and Chair of ASCO's Health Equity and Outcomes Committee. I'm joined today by Carla Tardif, chief executive officer at Family Reach, and Eucharia Borden, vice president of programs and health equity at Family Reach.
In this episode, we will discuss the importance of the community and organizations meant to address the social needs of patients as they navigate their cancer journey. There are many needs that cancer patients face and one of the biggest is the financial burden on the household following a cancer diagnosis.
We are lucky to have two change makers from the organization Family Reach with us here today. Family Reach is an organization in Boston, Massachusetts that dedicates their work to removing financial barriers with financial education, financial planning, resource navigation, and emergency funds to patients and caregivers.
Thank you both for being a part of our Social Determinants of Health podcast series in this episode focused on community and organization.
Carla Tardif: Thank you for having us.
Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley: Let's start the conversation with the question that we like to ask all of our guests. What does social determinants of health and cancer care mean to the both of you?
Carla Tardif: It's a great question and there are so many buzzwords now around this topic, so I really appreciate the opportunity to even define some of them, like social determinants of health, like financial toxicity, like health-related social risks and how are they different and what do they mean. We talk about social determinants of health being more about societal impact on people according to where they are born, live, work, play, and pray. And we talk about financial toxicity as the financial impact that a cancer diagnosis has on a family. Financial toxicity is a word that we say often and that really is about cancer affecting your finances and your finances affecting your cancer. And what does it mean when work is stopped, income is cut, out of pocket expenses, the cost of care, and how does that affect your ability to access care and adhere to treatment which will affect your survival rate? And then I'll pass it to you Eucharia, because I love her definition of social determinants of health.
Eucharia Borden: Thank you so much for having me here today. I think one of the first things that we need to put out there is that our professional language is full of jargon, and patients often don't understand things like social determinants of health, financial toxicity, what do these things mean to them? Which is why at Family Reach, we talk about meeting their basic needs, meeting their needs in areas like food, transportation, housing, and utilities, because that is also something that's important when you're approaching patients and working with patients who really do have financial toxicity - to make sure that you're on the same page with them about what their needs are and therefore what kinds of problems you're helping them to solve.
Dr. Reggie Tucker-Seeley: My first question is for you, Carla. Can you take us to the beginning? How did Family Reach get started and what led you to work with th
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