Health Affairs Briefing: Advanced Illness And End-Of-Life Care
Few areas of health
care are as personal, or as fraught, as care for people with serious
illnesses who are approaching death. At a point in their lives when their
needs are often as much social and spiritual as they are medical, people
are confronted with a fragmented, rescue-driven health care
system that produces
miraculous results but also disastrous failures.
As the nation’s population of individuals over the age of 65 is expected to
reach 84 million by 2050, addressing these challenges becomes increasingly
important, requiring coordination across multiple sectors and levels of
government. Innovations are needed to produce improvements in care
delivery; better communication between clinicians, patients and families; greater
uptake of advance care planning tools; and payment systems and policies
that support patient needs and preferences.
The July 2017 issue of Health Affairs, “Advanced Illness and End-of-Life Care”
includes a comprehensive look at these issue and others. In addition, HA
is hosting a forum at the National Press Club on
Tuesday, July 11.
Topics covered will include:
Care At The End Of Life
Financing & Spending
Quality Of Care &
Patient Preferences
Hospice & Palliative
Care
The program will
feature the following presenters:
Melissa Aldridge, Associate
Professor, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, IcahnSchool
of Medicine at Mount Sin...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
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