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 | 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 | Apr 5, 2021 | Health Affairs
In 2016 fee-for-service Medicare began reimbursing physicians for advance care planning conversations with enrollees during outpatient visits and waived the copayment for advance care planning when it was part of the Medicare annual wellness visit. Advance care...
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 | 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...
by admin | Jun 3, 2019 | Health Affairs
Family caregivers often serve as unpaid members of the home and community-based care workforce for people with serious illness; as key partners in the home-clinic continuum, they should be included in health care teams. The Campaign for Inclusive Care is an initiative...
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