African Americans are less likely to receive quality end-of-life (EoL) care. Addressing disparities in EoL care will need efforts to support a better understanding of African American patients' EoL cultural values and preferences for EoL communication and the impact of historical and ongoing care delivery inequities in healthcare settings.
Our proposed "Caring for Older African Americans" training program is designed to empower clinicians to improve goal-concordant EoL care delivery by using community-developed storytelling videos to create empathy with experiences of racism in EoL care, guidelines for culturally concordant EoL care delivery, and an implicit bias recognition and management training to mitigate bias in goals of care communication.
Self-identified as African American (i.e., born, raised, and lived primarily in the US)
Non-Hispanic or Latino
Age ≥60 years
English-speaking
Self-identified as African American (i.e., born, raised, and lived primarily in the US)
Non-Hispanic or Latino
Age ≥60 years
English-speaking
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lead sponsor
Montefiore Medical Center
Collaborator
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Collaborator
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Collaborator
Hospice of Henderson County, Inc.
Collaborator