[PDF] Top 20 Transitions to palliative care for older people in acute hospitals: a mixed-methods study

... life care. Adopting a proactive approach to palliative care and facilitating appropriate transitions between active to palliative care is likely to result in several tangible ... See full document

... risk older patients have been suggested as a means of reducing admissions, they have had limited success ...our study (54%) also cited a preference for care in their own homes rather than in ...of ... See full document

... through study advertise- ments distributed as part of local and national health and social service organization newsletters, organization membership lists, or via websites targeting older women and/or ... See full document

... this study demonstrate that one of the central difficulties in monitoring patient safety issues and preventing patient safety incidents for people with intellectual disabilities is the trend for reporting ... See full document

... The study was premised to a degree on the idea that the local context provided a particularly fruitful one for ...social care system was largely coterminous (with one council, one commissioner, one mental ... See full document

... qualitative study confirms that significant barriers exist to the provision of optimum palliative care for older people within acute hospital ...that older age can act as ... See full document

... Post-Acute Care Transitions for Sepsis (IMPACTS) study is a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial at three hospitals within a single healthcare delivery system comparing clinical ... See full document

... are consistent with Pecchioni's (2001) research on decision making in family caregiving and the potential for denial associated with health issues in old age. We found some adult children reported a variety of strategies ... See full document

... effective transitions to pallia- tive ...’ transitions, yet this was undermined by ...to palliative care was considered ...to palliative care necessarily entailed consider- able ... See full document

... Yet despite these differences, all subjects shared a con- cern for their loss of autonomy in relation to their glaucoma experience. They each described how important their independence was in order to read, use ... See full document

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... The Minimum Data Set-Resident Assessment Instrument (MDS-RAI 2.0) is part of an international system intended to capture information about the health, physical, mental, and functional status of NH residents [63-71] and ... See full document

... in hospitals and the community will validate and quantify earlier ...staff; palliative care specialists in hospitals and the commu- nity, and hospital staff who care for older ... See full document

... involve palliative care case managers is that they are ...spiritual care if they need ...of palliative care services in general ...spiritual care to patients for various reasons ... See full document

... This study included a subsample of a larger mixed- methods study within the D-SCOPE project (Detection, Support and Care for Older people: Prevention and Empowerment, ... See full document

... sub-Saharan palliative care are locally validated in clinically relevant populations ...African Palliative Care Association (APCA) African Palliative Outcome Scale (POS) [26,27] is a ... See full document

... experiences of their child’s death. Whilst only a few studies were identified which explored this topic, they do represent experiences of end of life across the entire age range, from perinatal death forwards. In ... See full document

... research methods and reverting back to traditional research ...change study to develop work teams in steel plants, expressing the frustration and powerlessness they felt within what they considered to be an ... See full document

... Friendly Hospitals, Palliative Care for All, Primary Palliative Care Programme and Journey of Change – are all run in collaboration with partners such as the HSE and the ...social ... See full document

... whereby people expect to make their own choices about how they will die (Seale, ...dying people and their professional services and not simply a comment of how well a person dies medically or ... See full document