Joanne Lynn on Comfortable & Meaningful End of Life

Joanne Lynn, MD, is a geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate.  She leads the Altarum Institute Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness.  



In this brief video, Dr. Lynn focuses on

• Shaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community


• Why are we still using 20-year-old SUPPORT data to guide end-of-life medicine and social support