Palliative Care
Learn about the role of palliative care in providing comfort and dignity to aging individuals facing serious illness.
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Palliative Care Playbook for PACE
Summary of best practices and tips for PACE organizations to improve care for participants through palliative care principles, practices, and specialists.
A Practical Guide To Telehealth: Implementing Telehealth in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Settings (PALTC)
Highlights from the Guide:Assessing needs and readiness: Tools to identify unmet needs and evaluate organizational readiness, including operational characteristics, culture, and technical infrastructure, to ensure alignment between goals and solutions.Financial models: Recommendations for exploring reimbursement options and value propositions to select cost-effective telehealth models, highlightin...
A Practical Guide to Implementing a Home-Based Palliative Care Program
As the US population continues to age, home-based palliative care will become increasingly important to ensure community-dwelling seniors with serious illness are able to receive high-quality care that addresses their medical and psychosocial needs – all while maximizing doctor-patient continuity and supporting shared decision making. This guide shares vital next steps to advance healthcare and s...