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Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
April 4, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 5:30 pm
The Keck Center of the National Academies + Google Map
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
Session 4,
2:45 pm A Policy Agenda to Improve Access to Care and Achieve Health Equity for People with Serious Illness Moderator: Sarah Downer, JD, Associate Director, Whole Person Care and Clinical Instructor on Law, Health Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School Panelists:
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