Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!: Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations and Tables 
Foreword 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

1. JUST THE FACTS 
Serious Chronic Disease in the Last Phase of Life 
Living with Chronic Conditions . Shortcomings in Current Care .
The Baby Boom Grows Old . Who Will Provide Care? . “Dying” and
the Problem of Prognostication . Which Illness Will It Be? .
Costs and Who Pays . The Shape of Things to Come

PERSPECTIVE: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG TERM CARE GIVER 
by Carol Levine 

2. SEEING THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY
Ideas to Shape Reform 
Life Span Perspective . Rethinking the Transition Model .
Misleading Words and Ideas . The “No Surprise” Question . Trajectories of
Illness across Time . Frequency of Trajectories . Anticipating Challenges .
Creating and Naming a Category . More Patients, Fewer Caregivers .Working
Out Patterns of Cost . Summary of Ideas to Shape Reform

PERSPECTIVE : QUALITY COMES HOME 
by Donald M. Berwick 

3. GOOD CARE FOR SOME PEOPLE SOMETIMES 
Hospice . Palliative Care at Home . Palliative Care in Hospitals . PACE:
All-Inclusive Care . The Chronic-Care Model . Coordinating and
Managing Care . Quality Improvement . Caregiver Programs . Practice
Guidelines and Audit Tools . Gems and Strategies for Change

PERSPECTIVE IN BRITAIN, PROGRESS IN CARE FOR THE LAST PART OF LIFE 
by Joanne Lynn 

4. SURVERYING THE TERRAIN 
Opportunities and Challenges
Key Features of Change . Caregivers as a Political Force . The Business
Case for Change . Promoting Coordinated Care . Barriers
to Reform . Avoiding Low-Impact Reforms

PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE FOR REFORMING U.S. HEALTH CARE
by the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine 

5. GOOD CARE FOR US ALL
Building the Care System to Count On 
Reprise of the Current Situation . Trajectories Form a Basis for Achievable
Excellence . MediCaring: From Promises to Practical Program . Methods to
Achieve Reform . Reforms to Implement Right Away! . Forging the
Will to Make Improvements Happen

Appendix: An Agenda for Action 
References 
Index