Scholar’s Website Prepares Patients to Make Complex Medical Decisions
February 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
PrepareForYourCare.org is a free, easy-to-use online resource that guides patients through all the steps of advance care planning.
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Older Patients Get Less Aggressive Treatment, Regardless of Health Status or Their Own Preferences, Study Finds
September 1, 2004 | Program Result
Starting in 1997, investigators at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, analyzed the effects of advanced patient age on resource use in hospitals, clinical outcomes for the patient and the cost-effectiveness of selected life-sustaining treatments.
Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units
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.
Project Safe Conduct: Collaborative Interagency Program to Improve End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients and Their Families
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
Case Western Reserve University, in partnership with Hospice of the Western Reserve and the Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospital, created Project Safe Conduct.
Bringing the Table to the Community
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.
The Cost of Dying
November 22, 2009 | Story
CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.
Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Body of Work in End-of-Life Care
March 27, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation addresses questions about the Foundation’s end-of-life strategy improve care for individuals at the end of life. The focus of the assessment was on how these projects, together, help create strategy.