Resources For Integrated Care

These podcasts excerpted from a 2018 webinar shares strategies for skillful communication, recognition, and response to needs of beneficiaries and their families throughout the course of serious illness, and engagement of palliative care consultants as an added layer of support. Timely recognition of hospice eligibility and referral in the months before death may improve quality of life and reduce reliance on emergency departments and hospitals for crisis management. The speakers also help the audience recognize the signs of the active dying process to ensure that thoughtful expert care is available during this vulnerable time.