END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR SENIORS: PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARENESS

Autor:	Margaret M. Ross, R. H. Fisher, Michael J. MacLean
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Social work business.industry Pain and suffering media_common.quotation_subject education Disease Education Dignity Nursing Medicine Quality (business) Geriatrics and Gerontology business End-of-life care Culturally appropriate media_common
Zdroj:	Educational Gerontology. 28:353-366
ISSN:	1521-0472 0360-1277
DOI:	10.1080/03601270290081335
Popis:	Seniors living with disease or dying should be able to receive competent, comprehensive, and compassionate end-of-life care that offers dignity, self-determination, and relief from pain and suffering. Such care is predicated on an informed public and health and social service providers who are in end-of-life issues and appropriate approaches. There is, however, little evidence that seniors and their families are about end-of-life issues or about their treatment and care options. Furthermore, health and social service providers do not predictably receive the education and training necessary to ensure a high quality of end-of-life care for seniors. This paper discusses public and professional awareness and offers strategies aimed at increasing awareness of end-of-life issues. These strategies also support the development of an approach to end-of-life care for seniors that is caring, compassionate, and ethically, spiritually, and culturally appropriate. The article contributes to an emerging agenda directed ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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