NASEM Workshop Proceedings: Challenges and Opportunities of Advance Care Planning
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has released a proceedings report, "Challenges and Opportunities of Advance Care Planning."
Advance care planning (ACP) has long been a staple of caring for people with serious illness. Over its history, it has been defined in different ways. Clinicians, researchers, patients, and the public have developed a variety of perspectives about the many aspects of ACP, ranging from the definition to the timing, goals, outcomes, and value of ACP.
To better understand the challenges and opportunities for ACP, acknowledge and highlight divergent viewpoints, and examine what is empirically known and not known about ACP and its outcomes, the NASEM's Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a virtual public workshop, Advance Care Planning: Challenges and Opportunities, on October 26 and November 2, 2020. The workshop explored the paradox of ACP, its evidence base, ways to think differently about ACP, and various approaches to making it more effective. This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions from that workshop.
The John A. Hartford Foundation is one of the co-sponsors of the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness.
To read the report, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support of NASEM, click here.
