Optimising palliative and end of life care in care home settings

Gary Mitchell; Alison Twycross

doi:10.1136/eb-2015-102280

Optimising palliative and end of life care in care home settings

Gary Mitchell, Alison Twycross

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined palliative care as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems 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.1 Globally, it is estimated that every year over 20 million people will require palliative care at the end of life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-2
Journal	Evidence-Based Nursing
Volume	19
Issue number	1
Early online date	15 Dec 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2015-102280
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016

Keywords

Palliative Care
End of Life
Care Homes
Nursing Homes
Older People

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