Task Force member Janna Pogers, member of the Duke Children’s Hospital Patient Advisory Council, emphasizes the importance of the family caregiver perspective and how the Task Force recommendations will help provide families with the support they need when facing serious illness.
Tish Singletary, Community Health Worker Program Coordinator for North Carolina’s Department of Health & Human Services shares the importance of serious illness policy and practices.
Helping someone with a serious illness means helping them live the best life they possibly can, and they need community support in order to do so.
This spring, the North Carolina Institute of Medicine will release a workable plan to meet the needs of individuals living with serious illness and their caregivers across the state of North Carolina.
