The Better Care Playbook: Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care Collection
The Better Care Playbook has published a collection of resources focusing on Home- and Community-Based Palliative Care.
Palliative care is focused on improving the quality of life for people with serious illness and their caregivers by relieving symptoms and stress. Nearly 75 percent of Americans would prefer to die at home, if given the choice. Many people with serious illness — those living with cancer, dementia, heart failure, and other severe medical conditions — are able to receive palliative care over months or years while living in their communities.
Home- and community-based palliative care programs have been shown to improve patient, caregiver, and clinician satisfaction, as well as reduce avoidable acute care utilization and costs. For health care systems to become more person-centered, patient preferences, such as choosing to receive palliative care in the home or community, need to be taken into account. Health care stakeholders can explore this Playbook Collection, which contains the latest evidence, practical tools, and case studies on home- and community-based palliative care models, to learn effective strategies for implementation and payment of these programs.
To go to the collection, click here.
To go to the Better Care Playbook, click here.
JAHF supports the Better Care Playbook through this grant.
