Providing palliative care to individuals with a history of alcohol use or alcohol use disorder (AUD) requires understanding the various characteristics, comorbidities, impacts and treatments for AUD, including medications for AUD (MAUD).
Up to 28% of inpatient palliative care patients have experienced challenges with alcohol use, and a large percentage of them (67% to 87%) are first identified as having a history of alcohol dependence when they enter into the palliative care setting. Because of associated and comorbid conditions, and the perceived risks associated with them, medications for AUD (MAUD) often remain underused within palliative care settings. Improving access to person-centered palliative care for people with AUD would allow clinicians to consider these factors as a part of a holistic, multidisciplinary, person-centered care approach to treating AUD and other associated and comorbid conditions.
Join the Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS)-MAUD and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing on Tuesday, April 8, 1-2 p.m. ET, to explore integrating AUD treatment into palliative care and solutions to improve access to and experiences of palliative care and MAUD. Attendees will hear from a pharmacology and palliative care expert about MAUD, palliative care and the benefits of combining the two.
This webinar is hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. National Council is a PCSS-MAUD partner