Over the past century, nursing homes and hospitals increasingly have become the site of death, yet no national studies have examined the adequacy or quality of end-of-life care in institutional settings compared with deaths at home.
August 3, 2018
Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/197944Over the past century, nursing homes and hospitals increasingly have become the site of death, yet no national studies have examined the adequacy or quality of […]
July 10, 2018
Digital tools are changing the way patients think about healthcare and how they want to access care, according to a survey conducted by Aetna.
July 10, 2018
“Operating in the dark”: Nurses’ attempts to help patients and families manage the transition from oncology to comfort care
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jocn.14603Communicating with oncology patients/families transitioning from curative treatments to care focused on comfort can be problematic due to a variety of factors. Research suggests discrepancies exist […]
July 4, 2018
Barriers and facilitators for GPs in dementia advance care planning: A systematic integrative review
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198535Due to the disease’s progressive nature, advance care planning (ACP) is recommended for people with early stage dementia. General practitioners (GPs) should initiate ACP because of […]