Messaging to the public regarding advance care planning, palliative care and hospice is inconsistent and confusing. Hospice and palliative care specialists are often asked to talk to the public about care for people with serious illness, but most have received little or no training in public messaging or media engagement. This activity reviews the need for improving public messaging about advance care planning, palliative care, and hospice along with the empirical evidence for public attitudes and awareness of these aspects of care for serious illness.

This activity addresses the complex challenges, barriers and optimal successes in transitioning childhood palliative care patients and families over to adult palliative care and adult services providers. The desired outcome for this activity is to apply, analyze and evaluate a transition model in pediatric to adult transitions for future practice application to improve outcomes in pediatric to adult serious illness care. 

In this moderated panel discussion, transgender and non-binary professionals will share their own life experiences and recommend affirming practices for communicating with and caring for people in this diverse community.

Palliative care clinicians are advocates for whole-person care, addressing symptoms and protecting what is most important to people living with serious illness, yet many palliative care clinicians lack clarity about how best to collaborate with spiritual caregivers to champion spiritual, religiou