Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People (FutureLearn)

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.