Compassionate communities and end-of-life care

Compassionate care at the end of life.

Compassionate collaborative care: an integrative review of quality indicators in end-of-life care

BACKGROUND Compassion and collaborative practice are individually associated with high quality healthcare. When combined in a compassionate collaborative care (CCC) practice framework, they are reported to improve health, strengthen care provision, and control health costs. Little is known about how to integrate and measure CCC, yet it is fundamentally applied in palliative and end-of-life care...

An evaluation of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit from a family caregiver's perspective at end of life

BACKGROUND The goal of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit (CCB) is to enable family members and other loved ones who are employed to take a temporary secured leave to care for a terminally ill individual at end of life. Successful applicants of the CCB can receive up to 55% of their average insured earnings, up to a maximum of CDN$435 per week, over a six week period to provide care for a grav...

REDCUIDA Intervention develop and manage networks of care and compassionate communities around people with advanced disease or at the end of life

Background People at the end of life have different needs that can only be partly met by formalised health and palliative care resources. This creates the opportunity for the community, the family and the person's social support network to play a crucial role in this stage of life. Compassionate Communities can be the missing piece to a complete care model at the end of life. The main objective...

End-of-life care