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Patients are the experts in what they want to achieve from their health care. Clinicians are the experts in how to get them there.

We offer evidence-based tools and resources to help patients, care partners, and clinicians focus decision-making and health care on what Matters Most: patients’ own health priorities.

Patient Priorities Care is suitable for any patient, but especially for older adults managing multiple chronic conditions.

How It Works

Patient Priorities Care follows two core steps:

1

Identify health priorities

2

Align care with health priorities

Implementation Toolkit

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Our Focus

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1

Help older adults identify their unique health priorities and align care with those priorities.

2

Expand the number of health professionals trained in, and practicing, patient priorities aligned decision-making and care.

3

Embed Patient Priorities Care into health professional training programs.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We recognize the unique challenges faced by vulnerable and underserved populations, including older African American and Hispanic adults and patients with dementia or cognitive impairment. We are dedicated to understanding their needs, ensuring equitable access to our resources, and actively engaging with these communities to address health care disparities.

Our History

Patient Priorities Care grew from the observations of health professionals who saw that traditional, disease-based health care wasn’t giving older adults with multiple chronic conditions the outcomes they truly wanted. Dr. Mary Tinetti, a geriatrician and researcher with decades of experience, was one of those health professionals.