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Palliative Care: Finding Common Ground
Jessica L. Israel, MD Corporate Chair, Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Director, The James and Sharon Maida Geriatrics InstituteRWJ Barnabas Health
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Why Palliative Care?
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Palliative Care
• Specialized medical care for people living with serious medical illness.
• Focused on relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness.
• Goal is to improve quality of life for both patients and families.
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Palliative Care
• Provided by a specially trained team of doctors, nurses, and other specialists
• Works together with a patient's other doctors to provide an extra layer of support
• Appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness
• Can be provided along with curative care
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Palliative Care
• Improves quality of life of patients and their families through the prevention and relief of suffering
• Early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual.
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Definitions
Curative Medicine
Palliative Medicinehospice
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Palliative Care
• Is applicable early in the course of illness in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy
• Includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.
• BASED ON NEED, NOT ON PROGNOSIS
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There is nothing in life really worth doing that isn’t going to be difficult.
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• Approximately 90 million Americans are living with serious illness, and this number will more than double over the next 25 years.
• Approximately 6,000,000 in the US could benefit from Palliative Care.
CAPC- Palliative Care Facts and Stats
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Illnesses Most Commonly Treated by Palliative Care
• Heart Disease• Cancer • Stroke, • Diabetes • Renal Disease• Parkinson’s Disease• Alzheimer’s Disease
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Most Inpatient Programs are Underutilized
• Ideal Consult Range 5%-10%
• Actual Consult Range 2%-4%
CAPC- Palliative Care Facts and Stats
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The quality of communication is the strongest independent
predictor of readmissions.
Senot, C, Chandrassekaran A., Harvard Business Review 2015.
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Everything is better with a team.
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Palliative Care uses a team approach to address the needs of patents and families.
• Doctors– Palliative Care Doctors– Other Doctors
• Nurses• Social Workers• Pharmacists• Chaplains
• Physical therapists• Massage therapists• Volunteers• Dieticians• Patients• Families• ETC
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“Ready” is a tough word.
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Palliative Care
• Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
• Affirms life and regards dying as a natural process
• Intends neither to hasten or postpone death
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Palliative Care
• Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of care
• Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible before death
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People are Resilient.
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Patients receiving Palliative Care Live longer
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Learn not to make assumptions.
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Palliative Care enhances quality of life and may also positively influence the course of illness.
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Mentorship is very important.
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“Palliative Care is good medical care for patients with serious medical
illness.”
Diane Meier 2002
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Sometimes no “medicine” is the best medicine.
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Pillars of Palliative Care
• Time to handle intensive patient/family/physician meetings
• Improved QOL • Coordinated and well-communicated care• Specialty level assistance• Support- for attendings and teams, discharge
planning, transitions• Improved quality leading to lower costs
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Our patients shouldn’t need to find a way to fit into our
environment. Our environment needs to fit our patients.
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