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2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

The 2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum annual conference will explore healthcare equity, focusing on difficult ethical challenges and solutions that advance the fair and just delivery of healthcare to under-served and underrepresented populations. Addressing healthcare disparities requires a multi-faceted approach, including policy changes, increased cultural humility in healthcare delivery, improved access to education and preventive services, and efforts to address health-related social needs. Identifying and recognizing the interconnected nature of these disparities will allow providers to work towards equitable healthcare for all people in a manner that aligns with professional and institutional values.

Objectives:

Participants will increase their understanding of ethical problems and solutions concerning healthcare equity, including but not limited to ethical issues arising from:
a. economic barriers to accessing health services and healthcare insurance;
b. racial, cultural, and linguistic bias and discrimination in healthcare;
c. gender bias and discrimination in healthcare;
d. citizenship and nationality bias and discrimination in healthcare;
e. ability-related bias and discrimination in healthcare.
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Access to Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm MST
Cambridge Room
Palliative and end-of-life (PEOL) care offer many benefits to those with life-limiting illness; however, older unhoused individuals face several structural barriers in accessing such care. This presentation will provide an overview of the structural challenges to addressing palliative needs for unhoused individuals and opportunities to improve care. Findings from a mixed methods study exploring social service and healthcare provider perspectives on the issue will be shared, as well as current ongoing local efforts to address the health needs of unhoused individuals.
  1. Understand structural barriers to accessing palliative and end-of-life care among unhoused individuals
  2. Consider how their own approaches or practices support unhoused individuals (if applicable) 
  3. Identify potential solutions to better support the palliative needs of our unhoused neighbors. 
Speakers
avatar for Pilar Ingle, PhD, MSW

Pilar Ingle, PhD, MSW

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Denver Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging
Pilar Ingle, PhD, MSW (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher with the Paul Freeman Financial Security Program at the University of Denver Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging. With a background in social work and over 7 years experience working in healthcare research, her research... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm MST
Cambridge Room
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