Despite improvements in end-of-life care, some unrelieved suffering persists for patients with advanced illness and their family members. Hospice and palliative care services can reduce suffering, but these services remain under-used. To investigate how patients with advanced illness and their primary ...
Many Care UK homes have received or are working towards accreditation with the Gold Standards Framework, a national training programme that provides guidance on the highest standards of person-centred end of life care for residents and their families. One of the framework’s aims is to ensure car...
Introduction: Deaths in care homes and "at home" are anticipated to account for a third of UK deaths by 2040. Currently, palliative and end of life care are not part of statutory training in care homes. Reflective practice is a tool that can facilitate practice‐based learning and support....
The use of an action learning set was purposeful, hoping to develop a sustainable supportive local network of managers. Action learning is sometimes referred to as group coaching; the premise is that real life problems would be brought to the “set” for discussion. The problems shared related...
This involved inhouse training of care home staff and visits to care homes every 10–14 days which resulted in significant improvements in end of life care outcomes (Hockley et al, 2010; Palliative Medicine, 24(8)). Phase 2 attempted to sustain the positive outcomes with a lower level of ...
The terms palliative and end of life care are often used interchangeably and healthcare practitioners may perceive that palliative care is only appropriate during the terminal stages of an illness. This article, the first of two parts, provides healthcare practitioners with an overview of the concep...
Mercer University School of MedicineTaylor & Francis GroupClinical GerontologistLiao S, Ackermann RJ. Interdisciplinary end-of-life care in nursing homes. Clin Gerontol. 2008;31(4):83-96.Liao S, Ackermann RJ. Interdisciplinary end-of-life care in nursing homes. Clinical Gerontologist 2008;31:83...
Much has been written regarding the problems of terminally ill people residing in nursing homes. Hospice care is one option these facilities have to assist... D Parker-Oliver,D Bickel - 《Journal of the American Medical Directors Association》 被引量: 98发表: 2002年 End-of-life care in the...
This report presents information on nursing home residents receiving end-of-life (EOL) care in nursing homes. Residents receiving EOL care are compared with those not receiving EOL care on demographics, functional and cognitive status, reported pain, medications, and diagnoses. Residents receiving EOL...
The article is framed in a care home context; there is little research about how to optimise palliative care for people living with dementia in care homes. The second part of this article will discuss end of life care and the best practices for providing end of life care, including ...