Het generalist-plus-specialistische palliatieve zorgmodel wordt wereldwijd onderschreven. In Nederland zijn de competenties en het profiel van de generalistische aanbieder van palliatieve zorg beschreven op alle professionele niveaus in de verpleegkunde en geneeskunde.

Background: Pain assessment is a necessary step in pain management in older people in palliative care. In older people, pain assessment can be challenging due to underreporting and atypical pain manifestations by other distressing symptoms. Anxiety, fatigue, loss of appetite, insomnia, dyspnoea, and …

This presentation contains information about palliative care and advanced care planning in an intercultural and intercontinental perspective.

Background: Palliative care patients desire more symptom management interventions that are complementary to their medical treatment. Within the multi-professional team, nurses could help support pain management with non-pharmacological interventions feasible for their practice and adaptable to palliative …

Background Specialist palliative care teams are consulted during hospital admission for advice on complex palliative care. These consultations need to be timely to prevent symptom burden and maintain quality of life. Insight into specialist palliative care teams may help improve the outcomes of palliative …

Eerder onderzoek wijst uit dat er nog niet veel bekend is over het belang van het voeren van het gesprek over het levenseinde, bij ouderen in Noord-Nederland. Hetgeen wat er bekend is, is dat er op gebied van communicatie nog veel te behalen valt. Dit komt doordat de kwaliteit van de communicatie als …

Background Hospital admissions are common in the last phase of life. However, palliative care and advance care planning (ACP) are provided late or not at all during hospital admission. Aim To provide insight into the perceptions of in-hospital healthcare professionals concerning current and ideal practice …

Background: Team-based palliative care interventions have shown positive results for patients at the end of life in both hospital and community settings. However, evidence on the effectiveness of transmural, that is, spanning hospital and home, team-based palliative care collaborations is limited. Aim: …

Background To improve transmural palliative care for older adults acutely admitted to hospital, the PalliSupport intervention, comprising an educational programme and transmural palliative care pathway, was developed. This care pathway involves timely identification of palliative care needs, advance …

Onderzoeksresultaten masterthesis gepresenteerd 'a predictive model of symptoms on pain in independently living frail elderly in palliative care'