Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness

Amy S. Kelley, MD MSHSIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, New York, NY, USADiane E. Meier, MDDirector, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Professor and Vice-chair for Public Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, New York, NY, USA

• When More is Less: Overuse of medical services harms patients.- Disparities in Access to Palliative Care.- Family Caregiving and Palliative Care: Aligning Theory, Practice, and Policy.- This is Your Life: Achieving a Comprehensive, Person-Centered Model of Care at the Intersection of Policy, Politics, and Private Sector Innovation.- Hospice and Health Care Reform: What is the Optimal Path?.- Palliative Care in the Long Term Care Setting.- Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform.- Palliative care’s impact on utilization and costs: Implications for health services research and policy.- Long-term Services and Supports: A Necessary Complement to Palliative Care.- The Manifest Destinies of Managed Care and Palliative Care.- Models of Care Delivery and Coordination: Palliative Care Integration within Accountable Care Organizations.- Implementing a Care Planning System: How to Fix the Most Pervasive Errors in Health Care.- Igniting Action to Integrate Palliative Care in our US Health System: The Role of Disease Specific Advocacy Groups A cancer advocacy case study.- What do you mean you don’t also offer palliative care? Effective public engagement to harness demand to improve care for serious illness.- Research Priorities in Palliative Care for Older Adults.- Medical and Nursing Education & Training.

From the book reviews: "This introduction to palliative care describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings and explores opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families, and healthcare institutions. ... It is a roadmap for policy and program design, and is therefore a useful resource for policymakers and healthcare administrators. ... This is an excellent resource and guidebook for those looking to improve palliative care in the future." (Darrell A. Owens, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2014)