CURRENT MODEL - Late and Reactive
- Disease-centered
- Emergencies
- Fragmented care
- Late
- Late identification in PC services
- Median length survival 2-3 months
- Mostly cancer 70%-30%
- Mostly in palliative care services
- Reactive/after crisis/post acute


PROPOSED MODEL - Early and planned
- Advance care planning/case management
- Early
- Integrated care
- Median length survival 24 months
- Mostly in community services
- Mostly non-cancer 85%-15%
- Person-centered
- Preventive/planned
- Timely identification in the community

Adapted from Xavier Gómez-Batiste & Stephen Connor. Building integrated palliative care programs and services. Catalonia, Spain. Internet. Accessed on October 31, 2017.