The Transformation Project
The Transformation Project: A New Initiative to Improve Advanced Illness Care
Center for Practical Bioethics and former AARP CEO launch effort to help patients, families and caregivers and to change the care system
Living with advanced illness in America is painful, isolating and costly. Most people spend their last days alone in hospitals and nursing homes, often in pain, despite the availability of effective pain management.
It doesn't have to be that way. Now is the time to get it right.
That is why “The Transformation Project: A New Initiative to Improve Advanced Illness Care” is creating a national consortium of leading organizations and individuals to work collaboratively on this issue. The goal is to produce a system that provides quality care consistent with the patient’s goals and values.
For more click on:
News Release
About the Transformation Project
Center for Practical Bioethics and former AARP CEO launch effort to help patients, families and caregivers and to change the care system
Living with advanced illness in America is painful, isolating and costly. Most people spend their last days alone in hospitals and nursing homes, often in pain, despite the availability of effective pain management.
It doesn't have to be that way. Now is the time to get it right.
That is why “The Transformation Project: A New Initiative to Improve Advanced Illness Care” is creating a national consortium of leading organizations and individuals to work collaboratively on this issue. The goal is to produce a system that provides quality care consistent with the patient’s goals and values.
For more click on:
News Release
About the Transformation Project
Labels: aging and end of life; advance care planning; advanced illness
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