• Center on Health Equity and Access
  • Clinical
  • Health Care Cost
  • Health Care Delivery
  • Insurance
  • Policy
  • Technology
  • Value-Based Care

Allison Silvers Draws Parallels Between Community Health and Palliative Care

Video

Before Allison Silvers became vice president of payment and policy at the Center to Advance Palliative Care, she ran an information center that helped the elderly. In both of these roles, she has helped people make the best possible choices after evaluating all of their options.

Before Allison Silvers became vice president of payment and policy at the Center to Advance Palliative Care, she ran an information center that helped the elderly. In both of these roles, she has helped people make the best possible choices after evaluating all of their options.

Transcript (slightly modified)

How have your experiences with community health shaped your work with the Center to Advance Palliative Care?

I spent a number of years running a senior information center where older adults in need would just come in, it was a storefront, and they would need help with housing or social services or finding good care. It was a really good flavor of people not knowing what their options are, and I think that same thing is true for palliative care. People are given a diagnosis, obviously there’s a lot of emotional turmoil that goes with getting diagnoses, and your doctor then informs you of what they recommend.

But typically there’s a whole menu of treatment options, and that’s not adequately communicated, and there’s also a lot of other needs that you have that wouldn’t even be addressed with treatment: spiritual needs, family reconciliation needs, et cetera. So I think that idea of giving people options and helping them think through their options is what’s common.

Related Videos
Will Shapiro
Pat Van Burkleo
Jeff Stark, MD, vice president, head of medical immunology, UCB
Robert Groves, MD
Screenshot of Raajit Rampal, MD, PhD
 Laura Ferris, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology, University of Pittsburgh
Dr Padma Sripada, Columbia Internal Medicine
Screenshot of Jennifer Vaughn, MD, in a Zoom video interview
dr amy paller
Related Content
© 2024 MJH Life Sciences
AJMC®
All rights reserved.