Staff-Identified Palliative Care Needs Among Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): A Survey Study

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program provides nursing home–level care to older adults living in the community. We sought to characterize provider perceptions of PACE patients’ unmet palliative care needs and quantify the palliative care educational needs of multidisciplinary PACE staff members by conducting a palliative care needs assessment survey of clinical staff at 3 PACE sites.