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Evaluation of a palliative care program for nursing homes in 7 countries: the PACE Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial
To investigate the effect of the Palliative Care for Older People (PACE) Steps to Success Program on resident and staff outcomes.Japan health ministry withdraws end-of-life care poster campaign after online backlash
ACP, also known informally as “the life meeting,” is a ministry effort that seeks to get people and their families to speak to doctors and others […]Do physicians require consent to withhold CPR that they determine to be non-beneficial? (James Downer)
In the past few years, Ontario has made international news because of a series of landmark legal cases involving end-of-life conflicts.‘Confessions of a reluctant caregiver’ palliative educational program: the results of a survey assessing physicians’ perceptions of drama-based education for end-of-life care
Inadequate palliative care training in medical education is associated with many physicians feeling unprepared to care for dying patients and their families.
Research has shown most frail elderly patients want to maintain quality of life rather than prolong it, however the use of invasive life-sustaining technologies in this population has been increasing. iCAN-ACP is a new $2.7 million national study that aims to narrow the gap between the care that frail elderly Canadians want and the care that they receive by testing ways to improve advance care planning conversations between patients, families and health professionals.
iCAN ACP
$2.7 million national study
iCAN-ACP is a new $2.7 million national study that aims to narrow the gap between the care that frail elderly Canadians want and the care that they receive by testing ways to improve advance care planning conversations between patients, families and health professionals. Project team members will engage elderly Canadians and their family members along with clinicians, and health care organizations to implement and evaluate a suite of tools to support advance care planning, a process for reflecting on and communicating wishes for future health care.