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The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care , to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital setting.
The earlier palliative group not only had better quality of life based on the Functional assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, but the palliative care group also had less depressive symptoms (16% vs. 38%, P=0.01) despite having received less aggressive end-of-life care (33% vs. 54%, P=0.05) and ...
Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimising quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1] Many definitions of palliative care exist. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes ...
Professor Mark Taubert, a palliative care consultant who is lead for Advance & Future Care Planning in Wales, published a position paper on this in 2022, [8] and NHS Scotland has also adopted Future Care Planning as an umbrella term, under which Advance Care Planning or Anticipatory Care planning are only a part-component.
Respite care (sometimes referred to as respite inpatient) is a brief and periodic level of care a patient may receive. Respite is a unique benefit in that the care is provided for the needs of the family, not the patient. Should a family member need a "break" from caregiving, or if a vacation is planned, then this level of care may be provided.
Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers at religious institutions. The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work.
Ambler, a Stanford University medical student, has pioneered an innovative approach to palliative care by transforming patients' life stories into spontaneous musical compositions.
Person-centred care is a concept used in the United Kingdom by Skills for Health, in their 2017 framework; by the Health Foundation, set out in their 2016 "quick guide"; by the Social Care Institute for Excellence; by the Royal College of General Practitioners and NHS England, who have developed a Person-Centred Care toolkit; by the Health ...