Examine how care homes are organised in Europe and how palliative care in care homes can be improved for older people. Enhance your personal or professional interest in palliative care in care homes. In most countries, the population of older people is rising. Some older people spend their final phase of life in a care home, nursing home, or long-term care facility. It’s important the staff in care homes know how to provide skilled and compassionate care.
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On this course, you will learn how care homes in six European countries can be improved using the research from a project called ‘PACE, Palliative Care for Older People’, funded by the European Commission. Using the PACE Steps to Success programme, you will learn how to improve palliative care in care homes for both residents and staff.
Syllabus
Week 1: Palliative care in care homes
Week 2: PACE Steps to Success - steps one to three
Week 3: PACE Steps to Success - steps four to six
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- 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.
