Policy Avenues for Increasing Access to Advance Care Planning

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 making, as opposed to just completing advance directives. Evidence shows that ACP is most successful as an ongoing process done inside integrated health systems or high-trust communities, and that traditional ACP is less accessible to ethnic and racial minorities.