The Current State of Community-Based Palliative Care
A Palliative Care News article shares insights from experts in the field about the future of palliative care due to varying scopes of services and a lack of a standardized definition. The consensus: as the field transforms, it's necessary to find a balance between flexibility and standardization, to advance patient-centered, quality palliative care.
Per Brynn Bowman, CAPC CEO, “There’s the issue of the branding and language of palliative care. Forever, there’s the issue of conflation between end-of-life care and hospice and palliative care. When we think about what that means, in terms of when providers have further questions about palliative care or about what that means to patients where they’re offered palliative care. [...] If there is a consistency in what patients can expect from those services, we can start to dispel those misperceptions.”