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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People
Lancaster University
Participants learned how palliative care in care homes could be improved drawing upon research from a project called ‘PACE, Palliative Care for Older People’, funded by the European Commission.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Sheila Payne
Professor of Palliative Care
Lancaster University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop an understanding of palliative care within care home and its importance to patients, their family carers and healthcare professionals
- Explore how palliative care can be implemented and sustained within a care home.
- Engage in online discussion with others and reflect on palliative care provision within care homes in your own country based on your own knowledge and experience.
- Assess how palliative care in care homes is managed across six European countries, drawing on results of the PACE project and examples from care home staff within these different countries.
- Engage with a number of palliative care topics including: discussing current and future care, mapping changes in an individual’s condition, coordinating care, improving assessment and management of pain, end of life care and care after death.
Syllabus
- Care homes, including the need for care homes and care homes in your country.
- Palliative care - including key components, types of services, pain and symptom management and education.
- The six steps in the PACE Steps to Success programme and how to apply them within a care home, including discussing current and future care, mapping changes in an individual’s condition, coordinating care, improving assessment and management of pain and care after death.
- Sustaining and keeping change going in palliative care within care homes.
- Case studies of good practice from six European countries.
Issued on 7th April 2019
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