Having experienced the value of home-based palliative care (HBPC) and recognizing the challenges it faces as it grows, my elective in HPBC left me wondering what the future will hold for this field. As a hospice and palliative medicine fellow about to embark on my career as an attending, I feel fortunate to be able to stand on the shoulders of my mentors and the many other pioneers in palliative care who helped build the field. It is only because of their work that I am able to be in the privileged position to look out on the future of HBPC and wonder about all that could be possible, knowing that so much of the path has already been paved.
With that sense of excitement, I wanted to open a discussion about where HBPC may be headed and to think about how the next generation of palliative care clinicians can build off the work of our predecessors to continue to refine HBPC to create a more patient-centered and seamless system of care for our patients. To help me in thinking about this …
With that sense of excitement, I wanted to open a discussion about where HBPC may be headed and to think about how the next generation of palliative care clinicians can build off the work of our predecessors to continue to refine HBPC to create a more patient-centered and seamless system of care for our patients. To help me in thinking about this …