This project will give older adults and caregivers tools to have honest conversations about the older adult’s ongoing care, ensuring their wishes are known and honored. Senior Care Partners PACE will bring the Respecting Choices Advance Care Planning (ACP) training...
This project will partner with experts at Wayne State University, including Dr. Lichtenberg, a national expert in financial decision making, in financial issues relevant to cancer patients to develop a set of comprehensive educational resources, a seminar series, and...
The goal of this initiative is to improve access to advance care planning (ACP) conversations and decrease the amount of 1:1 time it takes to provide them, ultimately resulting in more ACPs completed and more older adults’ wishes being honored. Michigan Health...
This initiative takes a different approach to traditional advance care planning efforts by focusing specifically on older adults in skilled nursing facilities, building their advance care plans into electronic medical records, and identifying health concerns prior to...
This initiative will use the nationally recognized Respecting Choices (RC) platform to provide Advanced Care Planning (ACP) support for adults 50 years or older. Beaumont will address the low completion rates of advanced directive documents; improve shared...
This project addresses the gap between seriously ill cancer patients’ goals and priorities and the care they receive, particularly near the end of life. By developing a person-specific plan from the very beginning of an individual’s care, the approach will better...
Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions will improve advance care planning services in the Upper Peninsula through new approaches to training and utilize existing clinical and healthcare staff. This initiative will also integrate with the health information exchange to...
The Michigan Health Council will promote advance care planning across Michigan by creating guidelines for county champions to use in conversations with community members and developing technology infrastructure to share individual plans with medical professionals. By...
