LET'S TALK ABOUT DEATH, BABY: A DISCUSSION OF DEATH AND DYING AND HOW THEY RELATE TO SPECIALTY PRACTICE AND PATIENT CARE
| Autor: | Anne M. Day, Ariel L. Laudermith, Gauri Khatkhate |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Geriatrics
medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study media_common.quotation_subject Population Specialty Face (sociological concept) Anger Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Nursing medicine Quality (business) Conversation Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology education media_common |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 28:S26 |
| ISSN: | 1064-7481 |
| Popis: | As geriatric mental health professionals we are, by definition working with patients who are approaching the end of their lives. Our patients have a variety of responses to this fact. Some may choose to avoid thinking about their own mortality, even to the point of denying medical realities. Others may confront their mortality more directly, and face a range of emotions from fear to anger to peace. Whatever the case, patients often turn to us for guidance, comfort or understanding. How we ourselves think and feel about death will shape how we speak to our patients and what we are able to offer them. This workshop will explore various aspects of death and dying that are relevant to geriatric mental health care. First we will discuss how the way different cultures and religions view death influences patients’ experience and needs at the end of life. Next, we will talk about what constitutes a high quality goals of care conversation, and how such conversations help patients to choose care at the end of life that is in line with their values. We will review data about the role of goals of care conversations on hospice utilization in an home based veteran population. Finally, we will discuss how trainee comfort with aging and death may influence the choice to go into geriatrics, and consider ways to address these issues. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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