Admiral Nursing: combining specialist dementia and hospice care

Admiral Nursing: combining specialist dementia and hospice care

More people are living longer in old age [1]. In the UK alone, the percentage of older people (aged 65 years and over) has grown by 47% since 1974 increased to make up nearly 18% of the total population in 2014 [2]. The numbers of those reaching the oldest ages are increasing the fastest: in 2008, there were 1.3 million people in the UK aged 85 and over, with this expected to increase to 1.8 mi...

Hospice care for patients with dementia.

Dementia is a leading cause of death in the USA. Although guidelines exist to determine hospice eligibility for dementia, only a small percentage of patients dying with this condition receive hospice care. Hospice recipients with dementia have not been well characterized, and little is known about the quality of care they receive. The Family Evaluation of Hospice Care (FEHC) survey was adopted ...

The Nursing Specialist Group

Medical software tools began to emerge during the 1980's, some became known as 'expert systems'. In contrast to conventional software which process data, expert systems process 'knowledge'. For this reason, expert systems are also called ‘Knowledge Based Systems' (KBS). The most well known medical example is MYCIN.' This expert system was developed at Stanford University in 1976 to aid physicia...

National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services. Voluntary euthanasia: the council's view.

Patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality in hospice inpatient care, hospice day care, palliative units in nursing homes, and home care: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Patients' perceptions of care quality within and across settings are important for the further development of palliative care. The aim was to investigate patients' perceptions of palliative care quality within settings, including perceptions of care received and their subjective importance, and contrast palliative care quality across settings. METHOD A cross-sectional study includi...