At-home Palliative Care Supported by Interprofessional Work

Integrating palliative care in the nursing home: an interprofessional opportunity.

More than 25% of Americans now die in a nursing home, with this percentage growing as our country rapidly ages.1,2 By 2030, the nursing home will likely be where 40% or more of Americans will die. Thus, it is imperative that nursing homes prepare for their compelling mission as “palliative care providers.”3 Nursing homes must embrace their role in providing palliative care for their residents w...

[Palliative and support care at home in primary care].

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion of people requiring palliative and support care at home in primary care and to describe their characteristics. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out by five Spanish sentinel networks between October 2007 and March 2008 in 282,216 people attended by 218 general practitioners and nurses. Patients receiving comprehensive, active and continued care at h...

Palliative care at home: general practitioners working with palliative care teams.

Home care is the preferred option for most people with a terminal illness. Providing home care relies on good community-based services, and a general practice workforce competent in palliative care practice and willing to accommodate patients' needs. Structured palliative care training of general practitioners is needed at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with attention to barriers to team...

Practising interprofessional team--work from the first day of class: a model for an interprofessional palliative care course.

Challenges of Palliative Care at Home in Brazil: A Reflection

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com shortage of PC trained health professionals working in HC, the need to break the paradigm of death at home, the challenges of teamwork in this care modality, and the difficulties in accessing of essential drugs to control the symptoms are other factors that contribute to the complexity of this discussion in the private financing health system in Bra...