Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop

The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include:

• Barriers that impede access to care for serious illness (e.g., advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice) among vulnerable populations and strategies to address those barriers 
• Strategies to build trust and effectively engage patients, families, and caregivers in diverse cultural, ethnic, racial and socioeconomic environments, in order to communicate with patients and families in a culturally competent manner regarding expectations and values related to end-of-life care, and to ensure that treatment is aligned with preferences
• Approaches to enhancing the diversity of the workforce providing care to people with serious illness
• Models of care delivery that currently serve vulnerable populations with serious illness, including public-private partnerships and community-level interventions such as use of community health coaches for peer-to-peer interventions, and partnering with faith-based organizations
• Research gaps and key questions for further research

While the workshop is not open to the public, you can follow the conversation on twitter:  #SeriousIllnessCareNASEM

Agenda