The work on California’s Master Plan for Aging (MPA) reached an important milestone with the September 18 release of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) recommendations to inform the Master Plan for Aging.
As a member of the MPA SAC, and the subgroups on healthy aging, workforce, and healthcare integration, CCCC’s CEO, Judy Thomas, JD, was successful in ensuring that several of the recommendations center around palliative care and advance care planning.
Palliative care and advance care planning (ACP) are featured most prominently in Goal 3 of the Master Plan, which focuses on Health and Well Being. Goal 3 includes a section dedicated to palliative care (pages 41-44), with major goals and recommendations around: