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Advanced Illness Management Strategies — Part 2

This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patient and community awareness and engagement and a ready, willing and able workforce.

Awareness: Communitywide strategies can significantly raise patient and family awareness in advanced illness planning and management. Appreciating the benefits and partnering with advanced illness programs sooner rather than later can make the utmost difference between “dying well” and “dying badly” and should be the draw to managing advanced illness and engaging with one’s mortality.

Workforce: The success of AIM programs is contingent upon the education and training of health care providers as the demand grows for managing multiple chronic conditions, as well as for palliative and end-of-life care. There are not enough health care professionals who are ready, willing and able to manage advanced illness with patients and their families, and there is a constant need to engage in conversations and provide guidance to more expert resources. 

View the second report, advanced  iIllness, part 2 here or click "view item" below. 

View the presentation slides, volumne 2.

View the first report here.

View the presentation slides, volume 1.

Learn how one hospital is putting these strategies into practice. 

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