End of life care: research into community-based initiatives.
Each country of the United Kingdom has a national strategy for end of life care. in recent years, many reports have been published to support good care. The strategies and main reports are summarised in Appendix 5. The most recent developments in palliative and end of life care in the UK contain some important themes.
Palliative care philosophy promotes the idea of a “good death”: a patient-centred approach to relieving symptoms and meeting the goals of terminally-ill people for their end-of- life care 1. The research suggests that Aboriginal families in Canada are a group that particularly needs these services.
The World Health Organization recently describes palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Making Medical Decisions for a Loved One at the End of Life; Improving Your End-of-Life Care Practice; ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel Papers (1999-2001) ACP convened this Greenwall Foundation supported consensus panel to develop ethical, policy, and clinical recommendations for physicians and other clinicians on end-of-life decisions.
The rapid increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 highlighted how quickly health systems can be challenged to provide adequate care. 1 Case-fatality proportions were 7-fold higher for patients in Hubei Province compared with those outside of the region, 2.9% vs 0.4%, emphasizing the importance of health system capacity in the care of patients who are.
Keywords: caring, concept of care, Cyprus, nursing students, qualitative research Background Caring represents an essential human need (Patistea, 1999). For as long as there has been human life and interactions, there has been a constant need for care and comfort to fellow humans inflicted by injury or suffering from an.
Abstract. Henry C, Wilson J (2012) Personal care at the end of life and after death. Nursing Times; 108: online issue. New guidance was published earlier this year to provide nurses with clear, practical advice on caring for patients before, during and after death.