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Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness - Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
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Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness - Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Series: Aging Medicine
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Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges
and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an
introduction to the principles of palliative care; describes
current models of delivering palliative care across care settings
and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy
reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients,
families and healthcare institutions. The United States is
currently facing a crisis in health care marked by unsustainable
spending and quality that is poor relative to international
benchmarks. Yet this is also a critical time of opportunity.
Because of its focus on quality of care, the Affordable Care Act is
poised to expand access to palliative care services for the
sickest, most vulnerable, and therefore most costly, 5% of
patients- a small group who nonetheless drive about 50% of all
healthcare spending. Palliative care is specialized medical care
for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients
with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious
illness-whatever the diagnosis or stage of illness. The goal is to
improve quality of life for both the patient and the
family.Research has demonstrated palliative care's positive impact
on health care value. Patients (and family caregivers) receiving
palliative care experience improved quality of life, better symptom
management, lower rates of depression and anxiety, and improved
survival. Because patient and family needs are met, crises are
prevented, thereby directly reducing need for emergency department
and hospital use and their associated costs. An epiphenomenon of
better quality of care, the lower costs associated with palliative
care have been observed in multiple studies. Meeting the Needs of
Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in
the Age of Health Care Reform, a roadmap for effective policy and
program design, brings together expert clinicians, researchers and
policy leaders, who tackle 16 key areas where real-world policy
options to improve access to quality palliative care could have a
substantial role in improving value.
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