Strategies and Innovative Models for Delivering Palliative Care in Nursing Homes

Strategies and innovative models for delivering palliative care in nursing homes.

The goals of palliative care address critical issues for individuals with complex and serious illness residing in nursing homes, including pain and symptom management, communication, preparation for death, decisions about treatment preferences, and caregiver support. Because of the uncertain prognosis associated with chronic nonmalignant diseases such as dementia, many nursing home residents ar...

Integrating palliative care into nursing homes.

Palliative care for older people in nursing homes.

Healthcare does not follow a linear track of prevention, health gain, health maintenance and palliative care. Instead, aspects of each occur to differing degrees at various stages of life 1 . While the palliative care component increases as we near the end of our life span, we also engage in a range of preventive measures in later life (and in nursing homes) such as influenza vaccination, falls...

Community Palliative Care Nurses' Challenges and Coping Strategies on Delivering Home-Based Pediatric Palliative Care.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the experience of community palliative care nurses providing home care to children. METHOD A qualitative study was conducted at the 3 community palliative care provider organizations in greater Kuala Lumpur from August to October 2014. Data were collected with semistructured interviews with 16 nurses who have provided care to children and was ana...

Innovative models of home-based palliative care.

The focus of palliative care is to alleviate pain and suffering for patients, potentially while they concurrently pursue life-prolonging or curative therapy. The potential breadth of palliative care is recognized by the Medicare program, but the Medicare hospice benefit is narrowly defined and limited to care that is focused on comfort and not on cure. Any organization or setting that has been ...