Despite advances in medical care, Americans still often suffer from unnecessary pain, discomfort and lack of caring at the end of life. Improved provider education and increased public awareness can lead to better end-of-life care.
Palliative Care
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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
Medical Students at Six Schools Learn how to Provide Palliative Care - And Their Teachers Learn How to Teach It
September 30, 2009 | Program Result Report
From November 2006 to May 2009, investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin helped six medical schools develop educational programs for palliative care and trained faculty at those schools to teach in the field.
Care at the End of Life Still Not What It Could Be
April 30, 2009 | Program Result Report
Joan Teno of the Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, R.I., analyzed existing data, interviewed bereaved family members and conducted surveys to assess end-of-life care provided in private homes, nursing homes and hospitals.
Circle of Life Awards Honor Exemplary End-of-Life Care
November 24, 2008 | Program Result Report
The American Hospital Association developed and implemented an annual awards program to recognize organizations providing exemplary end-of-life care.
Assessment of Last Acts Program Provides Recommendations for Future Direction
October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
In 1999 and 2000, Balch Associates assessed the RWJF Last Acts® campaign for improving end-of-life care so that RWJF and other Last Acts stakeholders might understand the components and dynamics of the campaign and consider ways to increase their effectiveness.
Pilot Program a Success, End-of-Life Training Extended to Entire VA System
October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Between 1998 and 2000, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, worked to improve end-of-life and palliative care training in internal medicine residency training programs affiliated with the VA.
Maryland Attorney General and Johns Hopkins Study Barriers to Effective End-of-Life Care
July 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In June 1997, the Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute, Baltimore, and the Maryland attorney general's office formed a partnership to investigate ways to improve End-of-Life care and eliminate the medical and legal barriers to effective palliative care for terminally ill patients in Maryland.
Providing Care-Not Cure-for Patients with Chronic Conditions
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology by Lisa Lopez, a freelance writer specializing in health care, analyzes the strategies and accomplishments of two significant investments by the Foundation to improve the way services for chronically ill people are organized and delivered
"Before I Die" Television Program Generates Discussion on End-of-Life Issues
February 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Educational Broadcasting Corporation, New York, and Barksdale Ballard & Company, a Vienna, Va., communications firm, produced a television broadcast and a multi-media curriculum to be used by grassroots organizations to promote the exploration of attitudes toward end-of-life issues.
"Five Wishes"
December 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The Florida Commission on Aging with Dignity, a privately funded nonprofit in Tallahassee, Fla., held a series of five community forums in Florida in 1996 and 1997 on a variety of aging and end-of-life issues.