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The number of people requiring care for serious illness is expected to rise significantly over the next several decades as a result of the aging of the population, and the associated increase in the number of people living with multiple complex chronic health conditions. The current workforce, however, is not adequately prepared to meet the rapidly growing demand for services.
On November 7, 2019, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop, Building the Workforce We Need to Care for People with Serious Illness.
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Workshop
·2020
The United States faces a significantly aging population as well as a growing share of the population that is living longer with multiple chronic conditions. To provide high-quality care to people of all ages living with serious illness, it is critical that the nation develop an adequately trained a...
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An ad hoc planning committee will plan and host a one day public workshop that will examine a key challenge in providing high-quality care to people of all ages facing serious illness: developing and supporting an adequate supply of care team members as well as ensuring that all team members acquire and maintain appropriate training and competencies. The workshop will address challenges and opportunities related to educating, training, and retaining the full spectrum of the workforce for serious illness care, including informal and family caregivers, and may feature presentations on issues such as:
- Developing and expanding the specialty palliative care workforce
- Developing primary palliative care skills for all clinicians who treat people with serious illness
- Training of interdisciplinary care teams including nurses, social workers, and chaplains
- Training and deployment of community health workers for serious illness care
- Educating and supporting the informal caregiving workforce: family, faith communities, and others
- Developing communication skills of workforce team members
- Increasing the diversity and cultural competencies of the workforce
- Enhancing workforce resilience and well-being
- Enabling virtual caregiving and telemedicine for serious illness care
The planning committee will develop the agenda for the workshop sessions, select and invite speakers and discussants and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Contributors
Sponsors
American Academy Of Hospice And Palliative Medicine
American Cancer Society
American Geriatrics Society
Anthem
Ascension Health
Association of Professional Chaplains
Association of Rehabilitation Nurses
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Cambia Health Solutions
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
Department of Health and Human Services
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
Federation of American Hospitals
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Humana
Kaiser Permanente
National Academy of Medicine
National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Palliative Care Research Center
National Patient Advocate Foundation
New York Academy of Medicine
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
Supportive Care Coalition
The California State University Institute for Palliative Care
The Greenwall Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation
Staff
Laurene Graig
Lead
Major units and sub-units
Health and Medicine Division
Lead
Board on Health Care Services
Lead