NORC Report and JAGS Paper: Improving Care for Those Living With Serious Illnesses and Individuals Approaching End of Life - A Decade of Investments
The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) has published a paper, "Improving Care for Those Living With Serious Illnesses and Individuals Approaching End of Life: A Decade of Investments," based on a NORC research report on JAHF’s serious illness & end-of-life grants.
Authored by NORC at the University of Chicago's (NORC) Dianne Munevar, Shelby L. Riggle, and Lia Martinez, and JAHF's Rani Snyder and Terry Fulmer, the JAGS paper highlights how JAHF's approach to grantmaking—including mission alignment, commitment, flexibility, active engagement, and focus on collaboration—contributed to the impact achieved by grantees.
The paper is based on NORC's detailed assessment research report that sought to understand the impact of JAHF's investment in the field of serious illness and end-of-life care and how the foundation's grantmaking strategy enabled this impact. "Advancing Compassionate and Equitable Care: Assessing a Decade of Investments in Serious Illness and End of Life" NORC report, released in January, serves as a synopsis of the diverse but targeted and connected set of grants JAHF has awarded, and provides an aggregate summary of how these grants have impacted the field.
The paper notes that the NORC report "found that the grants in this priority area led to five primary outcomes":
- Increasing access to services through sharing best practices.
- Providing professional training to the health care workforce.
- Influencing public discourse through community engagement and messaging.
- Informing public policy through research, recommendations, and technical assistance.
- Increasing collaboration and partnerships through network building.
Read the JAGS paper.
Read the NORC report.
Go to NORC's Assessing Investments in Palliative Care project page.
Learn more about NORC.
Learn more about JAHF's support of serious illness and end-of-life care.
