The report was prepared in the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS), under the supervision of Ana Llena-Nozal. Principal authors were Paola Sillitti and Ana Llena-Nozal with contributions from Elina Suzuki and Doron Wijker. The following people contributed at the early stages of the project: Kate Cornford, Cristian Herrera, and Yuka Nishina. Jenny Wilkens from the University of Southern California provided statistical assistance for the analysis from the Gateway on Global Aging Data while Jinkook Lee and David Knapp from the University of Southern California and Maria Casanova from California State Fullerton University contributed to the discussions and advice on the data (benefiting from the United States National Institute on Aging grant R01 AG030 153). Ricardo Sanchez Torres from the OECD provided logistical and administrative support throughout the project.
The authors would like to thank the country delegates and experts who provided responses to the policy survey and data questionnaire, as well as those who participated in the expert workshops on the framework in 2020 and 2021. The report benefited from information gathered through interviews from various experts: Francoise Berthet, Jin-Young Choi, Dagny Faksvag Haugen, Fred Laferber, Martin Lindblom, Julie Ling, Georgia Phillips, Mikaela Svensson, Ken Taneda, Paul Vandeberghe and Laurence Weber. Delegates from the Health Care Quality and Outcomes Working Party contributed through the provision of quality indicators to the pilot data collections and from the extensive discussion and comments on their interpretation and results. The report also benefited from the very helpful comments received by delegates from the OECD Health Committee meeting.
We are grateful for the members of the advisory board who contributed to the framework and principles of end-of-life care including Dagny Faksvag Haugen, Nicole Fitzgerald, Gavin Kennedy, Teruhiko Kawabata, Minette Kits Nieuwenkamp, David KW Lee, Julie Ling, Julie Lachance, Venetia Lawless, Louise Riley, Lyn Silove, Paul Vandeberghe and Julia Wadoux. We would also like to thank Katherine De Bienassis for comments on Chapter 4, Chris James for comments on Chapter 5, and Philip Haywood for comments on Chapter 6. We are very grateful to Francesca Colombo, Head of the Health Division, for supervising the preparation of this report and providing useful comments on various drafts. We also thank Stefano Scarpetta and Mark Pearson, Director and Deputy Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD for their guidance and extensive comments on various versions of the report.
The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of OECD member countries.