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April 3, 2006 | Story
A policy series that reaches 25,000 end-of-life coalition leaders, policymakers and healthcare professionals. The publication advances balanced approaches to pain management policy, consumer protection and professional development.
November 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Setting Priorities for Retirement Years Foundation examined how people make decisions about long-term care, the availability of information about long-term care, and the barriers faced in making informed decisions.
January 12, 2012 | Program Result
Advancing Measurement of Equity and Patient-Centered Care to Improve Health Care Quality was a targeted solicitation for proposals to expand understanding of how to make health care both more patient-centered and more equitable.
January 1, 1997 | Toolkit
Learn more about advance directives and how to express care preferences at the end of life.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
A large portion of the Safe Conduct team's efforts takes the form of gentle and persistent probing for problems that patients choose to keep to themselves.
December 7, 2011 | Story
The San Francisco partnership created the first-ever plan to improve community-based aging services. A coordinating council reporting to the mayor guided implementation, including bringing aging services into public housing and influencing policy.
March 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1997 and 1998, staff at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., organized two conferences on physician-assisted suicide and what it means to persons with disabilities, along with two training sessions that focused on developing ways of educating people with disabilities on the subject.
June 4, 2008 | Story
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center improved management of pain and more informed patients through a "pain poster"
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.