Inside Philanthropy on Grants to Tackle a Difficult - But Unavoidable - Issue: End-of-Life Care
Inside Philanthropy has released a blog, "Grants to Tackle a Difficult - But Unavoidable - Issue: End-of-Life Care."
"There's only a limited number of funders who engage the topic of end-of-life care, despite how important it is.....The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, along with other funders, including The John A. Hartford Foundation, has been involved in efforts to advance the recommendations made in a 2015 report by the Institute of Medicine titled Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life."
Inside Philanthropy discusses that the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is also "actively wrestling with these issues....Patient-centered research gets directly into the larger questions of what's sort of care is really going to help."
The article points out that "The scarce attention to end-of-life care issues reflects a broader shortcoming of philanthropy, which is that aging is not a popular focus for foundations, as we've reported."
To read the blog, click here.