Broadening end-of-life comfort to improve palliative care practices in long term care

Tamara Sussman; Sharon Kaasalainen; Susan Mintzberg; Shane Sinclair; Laurel Young; Jenny Ploeg; Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin; Genevieve Thompson; Lorraine Venturato; Marie Earl; Patricia Strachan; John J. You; Robin Bonifas; Margaret McKee

doi:10.1017/S0714980817000253

Broadening end-of-life comfort to improve palliative care practices in long term care

Tamara Sussman, Sharon Kaasalainen, Susan Mintzberg, Shane Sinclair, Laurel Young, Jenny Ploeg, Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin, Genevieve Thompson, Lorraine Venturato, Marie Earl, Patricia Strachan, John J. You, Robin Bonifas, Margaret McKee

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This study aimed to (1) explore how palliative care in long-term care (LTC) addresses the tensions associated with caring for the living and dying within one care community, and (2) to inform how palliative care practices may be improved to better address the needs of all residents living and dying in LTC as well as those of the families and support staff. This article reports findings from 19 focus groups and 117 participants. Study findings reveal that LTC home staff, resident, and family perspectives of end-of-life comfort applied to those who were actively dying and to their families. Our findings further suggest that eliciting residents' perceptions of end-of-life comfort, sharing information about a fellow resident's death more personally, and ensuring that residents, families, and staff can constructively participate in providing comfort care to dying residents could extend the purview of end-of-life comfort and support expanded integration of palliative principles within LTC.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	306-317
Number of pages	12
Journal	Canadian Journal on Aging
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980817000253
State	Published - Sep 1 2017

Keywords

Aging
End of life
Long-term care
Palliative care

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Gerontology
Community and Home Care
Geriatrics and Gerontology

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Sussman, T., Kaasalainen, S., Mintzberg, S., Sinclair, S., Young, L., Ploeg, J., Bourgeois-Guérin, V., Thompson, G., Venturato, L., Earl, M., Strachan, P., You, J. J., Bonifas, R., & McKee, M. (2017). Broadening end-of-life comfort to improve palliative care practices in long term care. Canadian Journal on Aging, 36(3), 306-317. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980817000253

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