Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Unhoused Patients with Serious Illness
An article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine offers an overview of the assessment and management of serious illness in patients who are unhoused, noting that being unhoused can negatively impact symptom management, access to disease-modifying therapies, and the ability to receive goal-concordant care. Written by an interdisciplinary group of palliative care, internal medicine, psychiatry, and addiction medicine clinicians and researchers, the article covers symptom management, comorbidities and mental health concerns, coordination of medical therapies, and advance care planning for this population.