CAPC Blog: Acknowledging Barriers and Implementing Strategies to Reach Black People with Serious Illness
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has published a blog, "Acknowledging Barriers and Implementing Strategies to Reach Black People with Serious Illness."
In response to the disparities in access to palliative care services, care quality, and outcomes for Black patients living with a serious illness, CAPC launched Project Equity, an initiative to create tools for meaningful change in the area of those in traditionally oppressed communities living with serious illness. The first part of the project is, “Equitable Access to Quality Palliative Care for Black Patients: A National Scan of Challenges and Opportunities,” which aims to answer the following questions:
- What goes wrong in health care for Black people living with a serious illness?
- What interventions have been tested to address disparities in the care of Black people living with a serious illness?
The blog features interview highlights from the scan on these two themes and lays the foundation for future publications on CAPC's interview series:
- Barriers to accessing palliative care for Black patients living with serious illness, both historically and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Strategies for engaging Black patients (and their caregivers)
Read the blog.
Learn more about CAPC's Project Equity.
Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of CAPC.
