Webinar Explores New Research on Improving Advance Care Planning
Discussions about serious illness and end-of-life care make it more likely that people will receive the kind of care they want, yet these important conversations often fall short, start too late, or don’t happen at all.
Join us for a webinar on Thursday, December 1, 2016, at 2pm Eastern, to hear new research exploring opportunities to improve advance care planning.
Register here: bit.ly/ACPfocus
The John A. Hartford Foundation, the California Health Care Foundation, and Cambia Health Foundation commissioned “Conversation Starters”: six focus groups with clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, conducted June 7-29, 2016) and a seventh consumer focus group of 31 racially and culturally diverse adults age 40+ who have an advance care plan (conducted September 8, 2016). PerryUndem Research/Communication conducted the focus groups.
Presenters:
Ellen Goodman, Co-founder and Director of The Conversation Project, which is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.
Susan Block, MD, Director of the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs and founding chair of the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, and professor of psychiatry and medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City, a foundation dedicated to improving the care of older adults.
Sandra R. Hernández, MD, president and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation , which is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the status quo.
Angela Hult, Executive Director of Cambia Health Foundation, committed to partnering with others to create a more person-focused and economically sustainable health care system, and championing the innovators who demonstrate what a truly transformed system can be.