Over 25 % of adults, age 65 and older, including 67 % of persons with advanced dementia, live their final days in nursing homes. Despite the billions of dollars spent on nursing home services, care in this setting is associated with poor symptom control,
Palliative care facilities and expertise are often organized with the general population in mind. In the Netherlands, palliative care is preferably provided at home or, for those who need care that cannot be delivered at home, in nursing homes or hospices. However, for people experiencing homeless...
OBJECTIVES: To explore the portrayal of terminal care at home in newspapers in the Netherlands in 2000 and in 2009. METHOD: We performed a systematic analysis of documents retrieved from the LexisNexis Academic NL database. We compared data regarding the 'point of reference' (or 'frame') and...
Palliative care has been developing since the 1960s as a form of caregiving that focuses on the relief of suffering when there is no prospect of a cure or when a patient is at the end of life. Originating in the UK and US, palliative care has been taken
Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of patients, drawing attention to the global aspects of patients distress. Patients with cancer, especially those involved in active therapy and those with advanced disease, may experience severe symptom distress. This may influence physical and soci...
UK programme shows promise but services also need adequate investmentPrimary care has a vital role in delivering palliative care.1 2 In most developed countries more people die in hospital than at home,3 although substantially more people would prefer to die at home.4 Primary care professionals pl...
24 Including geriatric interventions (eg, reduction of polypharmacy, intensified physiotherapy to improve mobility, occupation therapy to improve self-care, and social care to improve the home environment and support advanced care planning) in care strategies, either before or at the same time as ...
Introduction: Increasing advance care planning (ACP) among older adults is a national priority. Documentation of ACP in the electronic health record (EHR) is particularly important during emergency care. Objective: We sought to character... TF Platts-Mills,NL Richmond,EM Lefebvre,... - 《Journal...
A palliative care is a intervention that improves the QoL of patients with cancer [5], reduced hospital emergency admissions [6], hospital bed days, hospital costs and increased home deaths and increased regional palliative care access [7, 8]. Additional improve symptom burden [9, 10], family...
Palliative care is a specialized medical care provided by an interdisciplinary team for patients with serious illnesses and their families. The care focuses on alleviating both physical and psychosocial distress while improving patient satisfaction and a