Part of what the goal for this work was to bring people who have such expertise in this area with people like myself who actually touched the lives of many people in our world and i just say in home support alone we have 22000 people and we have Palliative Care recipients. I had to figure out as much as i could and how to include the services. Before you talk about alzheimers and dimension Strategic Plan and the coordinating council, this is a part of that work as well. We learned about an area we needed to learn about and new very little about and it was also an opportunity for people in the medical world to understand the work that goes on in the community outside of the hospital setting and pull people together so they can partner in the future, not just on implementing the recommendations that are in the report, but partnering together on a daily basis. So, a lot i think was learned from this work. There were obviously some goals we had when we started out and i understood over tim
Everybody has their preferences about their treatment well understood to make sure we are respecting their wishes and preferences. Shortterm are those individuals who had a high illness burdens, from the treatment of conditions and illness. That focus is to gather data around gaps and needs for that population. Then our second deliverable, well, our second deliverable you heard about around the inventory of Palliative Care resources within our community. This is really an amazing experience to be a part of where all the Community Agencies and resources are part of this task force along with what they knew were able to communicate with Palliative Services they were providing and finally coming up with an extra set of recommendations around those quality areas around Community Engagement. Im going through this quickly because i want to respect your time. With respect to quality, we wanted to emphasize to measure quality of care, Palliative Care in different settings. Particularly for hos
You that Palliative Care is not an area of expertise for me. I have had experience with this kind of work but never really under taken to understand what it meant professionally. So i had a lot of learning to do and thank goodness i was surrounded by people with dr. Chow and dr. Christine ritchie and who really understand this subject because professionally is what they do day in and day out. Part of what the goal for this work was to bring people who have such expertise in this area with people like myself who actually touched the lives of many people in our world and i just say in home support alone we have 22,000 people and we have Palliative Care recipients. I had to figure out as much as i could and how to include the services. Before you talk about alzheimers and dimension Strategic Plan and the coordinating council, this is a part of that work as well. We learned about an area we needed to learn about and new very little about and it was also an opportunity for people in the med
Just say in home support alone we have 22000 people and we have Palliative Care recipients. I had to figure out as much as i could and how to include the services. Before you talk about alzheimers and dimension Strategic Plan and the coordinating council, this is a part of that work as well. We learned about an area we needed to learn about and new very little about and it was also an opportunity for people in the medical world to understand the work that goes on in the community outside of the hospital setting and pull people together so they can partner in the future, not just on implementing the recommendations that are in the report, but partnering together on a daily basis. So, a lot i think was learned from this work. There were obviously some goals we had when we started out and i understood over time that there is a growing need in this area and there are gaps in services because there are gaps in services about any place you look. Although i think the jail house folks caught m
At the white house. Wisdom martin is catching up with all the people. Lauren has everything you need to know about todays parade. We want to begin with our own tom fitzgerald. He is live on the west front. Reporter good morning to you and allison. As we were looking down the National Mall as the sun is now up, were able to see we can see you down there from your Vantage Point overlooking pennsylvania avenue. For the most part here, the crowd on the west front as begun to fill out fairly nicely at this point. We arrived here shortly after 5 00 a. M. This morning when most of the media folks here were allowed to begin on to the grounds. One thing we noticed quickly as for all the preparations underway up here since october when they drove the first nail into the platform, many of these seats were still being set up as we came up in here this morning. You are seeing a mix of different kinds of configurations. These seats up front, these are ticketed. Many are vips. They are invited guests