New at CAPC: July 2024
CAPC is constantly creating new products—and updating existing ones—to ensure you have the best tools and technical assistance to do your job. Here's an update about what we've done in July 2024:
New Resources
Best Practices in Dementia Care and Caregiver Support
CAPC launched eight new Best Practices in Dementia Care and Caregiver Support courses. These new courses, one of which is open-to-all and offers clinicians from all specialties and disciplines training on how to:
- Effectively communicate with patients and their loved ones about a dementia diagnosis
- Help families understand what to expect and how to prepare for the future
- Interpret and address behavioral symptoms
- Manage common medical issues
- Navigate difficult care decisions
- Support the caregivers of people living with dementia
CAPC members, if you have taken our previous Dementia courses, you can take these courses and earn new CE/CME credits and CAPC Designation. Free ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits are also available for physicians.
Accreditation Commission for Health Care Palliative Care Accreditation with Telehealth
The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) is committed to providing healthcare organizations with comprehensive standards that facilitate the highest level of performance. In 2024, an additional distinction for community-based palliative care programs, incorporating care delivery via telehealth, was added. This ACHC standards document includes the Preliminary Evidence Report Checklist and ACHC Palliative Care Accreditation Standards.
Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) include everyday tasks that many people with serious illnesses find difficult. This assessment tool will help teams identify needs that can be addressed with community support.
Opportunities for Improving Access to Palliative Care for Dual Eligible Individuals Living with Serious Illness
An ATI Advisory and CAPC report describes the barriers confronting dual-eligible individuals living with serious illness and opportunities for CMS, state Medicaid agencies, and D-SNP plans to promote access to palliative care.
Virtual Events
Sexuality and Intimacy within the Palliative Care Population
Watch a recorded Interprofessional Grand Rounds, which explores the intersection of sexuality and intimacy for people living with serious illness. The speakers discuss how to address this topically holistically, as creating a safe space for such discussions fosters trust, allowing patients to voice their concerns and preferences openly. By the end of the session, viewers will be able to define sexuality and intimacy for the palliative care population, identify medical, psychological, and social issues leading to intimacy and sexual symptom concerns in patients living with serious illness, and more.