ABCD Exchange : May - June 2001 : QuickScan - News in Brief

Upfront - East Orange VAMC Improves Care
President's Letter - Change in Oregon
Meet the Board - Introducing Members
ABCD Welcomes New COO
In the States - Inadequate Pain Management in California
Lunch Briefing - Medicare+Choice
Innovations - Philadelphia's African-Americans' EOL Concerns

NEWS AND NOTES ON END-OF-LIFE CARE

Washington, DC - After meetings with ABCD staff, Congressman James Oberstar (D-MN) has agreed to sponsor a comprehensive measure that will include many of the elements of our legislative agenda. At this time, his staff is working with legislative counsel to draft the measure. The bill is likely to touch on the four federal solutions outlined in ABCD’s legislative agenda:

demonstration programs, including centers for excellence;
research programs to promote guidelines on end of life care;
Medicare coverage for people with serious and fatal chronic illness;
and caregiver relief.

For more details about ABCD’s legislative recommendations, visit www.abcd-caring.org.

Web resources - Initial chapters for a free, interactive, web-based clinical pain and symptom research textbook are now available online. Edited by Mitchell Max and Joanne Lynn and funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the (Interactive Textbook of Clinical Symptom Research) is intended to prepare beginning and advanced students for developing research proposals. The site also includes a directory of current grant opportunities relevant to pain and symptom research. Twenty-three additional chapters will be added to the site over the next 18 months.

Thanks to Janette Hoisington, the librarian for the National Council on the Aging, for developing a guide to assist older adults on how to find reliable health information on the Internet. Finding Reliable Consumer Health Information on the Internet is geared toward elders, but will be useful to any novice seeking information. (ABCD has asked that caregiving and end-of-life care be added to future versions!) Reprints are available by contacting Hoisington at janette.hoisington@noa.org.

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