Difficult Conversations, Meaningful Care: Navigating End-of-Life in Primary Care

Overview

Explore the essential role primary care providers play in initiating and guiding compassionate, patient-centered discussions about end-of-life care. This session will equip participants with communication strategies, ethical frameworks, and practical tools to navigate these conversations with empathy, clarity, and confidence—ensuring that care aligns with patients' values and wishes during one of life’s most critical transitions.

The session "Difficult Conversations, Meaningful Care: Navigating End-of-Life in Primary Care" (0.75 hour) is designed to satisfy state licensure requirements on Alzheimer's Disease in MA (MD/DO)

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to help your patients with life-limiting illness make decisions in advance and in-the-moment about their care
• Learn how to use best practices in serious illness conversations to navigate difficult topics with sensitivity, honesty, clarity and respect
• Recognize the vital role of PCPs in caring for their patients at end of life