Frailty and Palliative Care

Description

Is Palliative Care and Hospice the same thing?  As a chronic liver disease or end-stage liver patient how can focusing on frailty and palliative care actually improve patient outcomes? Palliative Care provides excellent resources for patients and their caregivers and helps bridge the gap between physicians and their patients to make sure their mental and physical needs are met. You will hear from experts in the fields of frailty and palliative care and get the patient/caregiver perspective as well.

Objectives

  • How measurements of frailty may influence transplant candidacy and techniques to improve frailty
  • How patients and caregivers can make decisions about including palliative treatments in their treatment plan
  • Whether doctors and patients think differently about a patient using palliative care