by admin | Jan 21, 2021 | Health Affairs
By 2030 more people in the United States will be older than age sixty-five than younger than age five. Our health care system is unprepared for the complexity of caring for a heterogeneous population of older adults—a problem that has been magnified by the coronavirus...
by admin | Jan 3, 2021 | Hospice News
Public misperception is a barrier between patients and palliative care. Based on the true story of a nurse practitioner’s experiences with patients and families facing serious and terminal illnesses, the film “The Elephant in the Room” depicts the patient-centered...
by admin | Dec 24, 2020 | Hospice News
Members of the congressional physician’s caucus have written to U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma to advocate for a Medicare palliative care benefit demonstration. Reps. Neal Dunn, M.D (R-Fla), Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.),...
by admin | Jul 8, 2019 | C-TAC
A new collaborative in Arizona, led by The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), is the first phase of a national initiative that will measure advanced care quality in every state and create a roadmap for improvement. C-TAC strives to ensure that people with...
by admin | Jun 3, 2019 | Health Affairs
Although most care for people with serious illness is delivered by multiple providers and agencies, there is no gold standard for how to assemble, train, unify, and sustain strong teams. Using lessons from complexity science, a way of studying complex systems, we...
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