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| Broadening end-of-life comfort to improve palliative care practices in long term care | | Author(s) | Tamara Sussman, Sharon Kaasalainen, Susan Mintzberg |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 36, no 3, September 2017 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, September 2017 |
| Pages | pp 306-317 |
| Source | http://cambridge.org/cjg |
| Keywords | Dying ; Palliative care ; Family care ; Long term patients ; Quality of life ; Well being. |
| Annotation | This study aimed to (1) explore how palliative care in long-term care (LTC) addresses the tensions associated with caring for the living and dying within one care community, and (2) to inform how palliative care practices may be improved to better address the needs of all residents living and dying in LTC as well as those of the families and support staff. This article reported findings from 19 focus groups and 117 participants. Study findings revealed that LTC home staff, resident and family perspectives of end-of-life comfort applied to those who were actively dying and to their families. Findings further suggested that eliciting residents' perceptions of end-of-life comfort, sharing information about a fellow resident's death more personally, and ensuring that residents, families and staff could constructively participate in providing comfort care to dying residents could extend the purview of end-of-life comfort and support expanded integration of palliative principles within LTC. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171006225 A |
| Classmark | CX: LVB: P6:SJ: LF7:4Q: F:59: D:F:5HH |
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