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Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis. Syracuse Seminar Series on Aging

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  • R. Sean Morrison

    (Director, National Palliative Care Research Center; Vice-Chair for Research, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; Hermann Merkin Professor of Palliative Care, Mount sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574)

Abstract

Palliative care is specialized healthcare for anyone who is diagnosed with a serious and life-threatening illness, starting when they get the diagnosis, regardless of the prognosis. Although hospice is a form of palliative care, most palliative care is not end-of-life care or hospice, a common misperception that deters many people from using palliative care when they would benefit from it. Palliative care improves quality of care, reduces hospital costs, and helps clinicians address the needs and wants of patients and their families, which is why I refer to it as a 'novel' solution to the longstanding healthcare crisis.

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  • R. Sean Morrison, 2010. "Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis. Syracuse Seminar Series on Aging," Center for Policy Research Reports 43, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
    • Handle: RePEc:max:cprrpt:43
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    Keywords

    palliative care; hospice; patient autonomy; access to information; pain; distress; serious illness; cancer; depression; physical discomfort; medical education;
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    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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