Amy Berman, Atul Gawande, and Kate Lally Testify Before Senate Special Committee on Aging on Person-

Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at Foundation, testified today before the Senate's Special Committee on Aging. The hearing focused on ensuring person-centered care for people with serious illness.

"Care planning is key to providing the right care and avoiding the wrong care for the seriously ill person. It is more than just advance care planning and the end of life. Care plans include goals of care conversations over time and specifically before critical choices about treatment need to be made," Ms. Berman said.

Witnesses at the testimony included:

Dr. Atul Gawande - Executive Director, Professor, Staff Writer; Ariadne Labs; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; The New Yorker
Dr. Kate Lally - Chief of Palliative Care at Care New England Health System
Amy Berman - Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation

You can listen to entirety of the hearing here.
You can download the testimony here.