Palliative Care and the Health Care Crisis in the United States: A Candid Conversation With Dr. Diane Meier

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Diane E. Meier, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Description/Abstract

This paper is a synthesis of the 2012 Lourie Lecture, framed as a series of questions and responses, and supported by images used in the lecture. I’m going to focus on the growth of this new field called palliative care and will make the connection that the crisis afflicting healthcare in the United States cannot be addressed without widespread scaling and implementation of palliative care across the system. My subject is not end-of-life care, but rather care during serious illness. A serious illness is something a person can live with for many years, such as emphysema, or end-stage renal disease on dialysis, or dementia. Of course, serious illnesses are also progressive and eventually lead to end-of-life, but I want to address care for a much broader patient population, not those who are clearly dying and who will qualify for hospice services.

Document Type

Policy Brief

Date

3-2013

Language

English

Series

Reports Series

Acknowledgements

The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy, sponsored by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University and the Central New York Community Foundation, Inc., honors the memory of Herbert Lourie, MD, a distinguished Syracuse neurosurgeon, professor, and community leader for nearly 30 years. Generous contributions from his family, friends and colleagues, and former patients have endowed this series.

Disciplines

Economics | Finance and Financial Management | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Public Health | Sociology | Urban Studies and Planning

Additional Information

Policy brief no. 47

Recommended Citation

Meier, Diane E., "Palliative Care and the Health Care Crisis in the United States: A Candid Conversation With Dr. Diane Meier" (2013). Center for Policy Research. 277.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/277

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Local input

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