Home-based advanced illness management program shows reductions in end-of-life acute care utilization.

Toolkit to help palliative care professionals better understand current disparities in palliative care outcomes and design more equitable, patient-centered care approaches.

Includes information and tools for palliative care program leaders on making the case for palliative care services in public hospitals.

Community health worker-led advance care planning and symptom screening program reduced acute care use for patients with advanced stages of cancer.

Medicare beneficiaries with dementia, especially Black and Hispanic patients, often receive poor quality end-of-life care.

While the Medicare hospice benefit has historically been designed to meet the needs of patients with cancer, people with dementia and their caregivers experience better outcomes when enrolled in hospice.

Some person-centered care interventions are more effective than others at reducing behavioral and psychological symptoms and improving cognitive function in people with dementia.

This tool can be used to guide state policy planning for a community-based palliative care benefit in Medicaid.

This guide describes key strategies for health plans, accountable care organizations, and health systems to improve care for people with serious illness.

Describes the core elements and evidence base behind a home- and community-based palliative care model that was designed by stakeholders to support the health needs of people with serious illness.

State policy recommendations to improve the recruitment, retention, and training of the direct care workforce.

This report identifies policy strategies for states to expand access to respite care for caregivers.

Recommendations for how managed long-term services and supports plans can better raise awareness of and increase support for family caregivers.

Home-based primary care did not decrease hospitalizations for people with dementia, but it did result in more patient- and family-centered end-of-life care.

Home-based palliative care providers explore key facilitators and barriers to effectively delivering care within a value-based payment environment.

Looked at the provider and payer relationship and discussed how successful partnerships between these two stakeholders can create sustainable and efficacious home and community based palliative care programs.

Home-based palliative care program implemented within an accountable care organization created cost savings through reduced hospital admissions and increased hospice length of stay.

Advance care planning more than one month prior to death is associated with decreased acute care utilization at the end of life and in-hospital death for people with serious illness.