Wall Street Journal Prominently Features Amy Berman and Grantee Diane Meier on Palliative Care
Hartford Senior Program Officer Amy Berman and Dr. Diane E. Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing palliative care in light of more patients, especially those with chronic illnesses, increasingly turning to this alternative form of treatment to address the symptoms of their illnesses.
Hartford Senior Program Officer Amy Berman and Dr. Diane E. Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing palliative care as more patients, especially those with chronic illnesses increasingly turn to this alternative form of treatment to address the symptoms of their illnesses.
Although often associated with end-of-life discussions and spoken of in the context of older patients with terminal illnesses, palliative care is increasingly being offered to patients of any age with a range of chronic illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s.
Both Amy Berman and Dr. Diane Meier are no strangers to the health benefits of palliative care over more readily prescribed and popular treatments for various illnesses.
“Most people who need palliative care are in fact not dying, but have one or more chronic diseases which they may live with for many years,” says Diane Meier, who is also a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Amy Berman was diagnosed with stage four inflammatory breast cancer in 2010. Instead of opting for more aggressive treatment, she has chosen treatments that address her her pain and symptoms and allowed her to continue traveling extensively for work.
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