by FPCC | Mar 11, 2022 | Health Affairs
Palliative care is an approach to provide optimal physical, emotional, and practical support to patients with serious illnesses. In the past decade, the practice of palliative care has rapidly grown (1). While the primary goal of palliative care is to relieve a...
by FPCC | Mar 11, 2022 | Home Health Care News, Hospice News
The Lien Centre for Palliative Care at Duke-NUS Medical School, commissioned by the Lien Foundation, has produced the Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying Index 2021. Professor Eric Finkelstein, Executive Director of Lien...
by FPCC | Mar 11, 2022 | Health Affairs
Over 55 million people died in 2019.1 The vast majority died in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) without even basic access to palliative care, an essential component of universal health coverage. As a result, many of these individuals died in pain, and with...
by FPCC | Mar 8, 2022 | C-TAC
C-TAC has historically focused on improving access to advance care planning (ACP) as the foundation of person-centered care and it is a key priority for our 2022 policy efforts. ACP is the process of preparing someone with serious illness for future medical decision...
by FPCC | Jun 8, 2021 | Hospice News
About 89% of people in the United States have inadequate knowledge of palliative care. One key determinant was health care utilization. The more regular health care services a patient receives, the more likely they are to have some understanding of palliative care,...
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