Objectives Upon completion of this power point presentation, the participants should be able to:
Define the meaning of end of life care
Determine the global challenges and innovation of end of life care
Discuss the importance of advance directives and planning
Distinguish palliative care from hospice care
Identify the global role of physical therapy in addressing end of life care
End of Life Care
This sensitive subject, although heart wrenching, is vital to all decision makers to know (patient, legal next of kin, physicians) considering that it may affect the treatment decisions of all participants involved.
End of Life Care In the words of Periyakoil (2012), end of life is often a backward-looking diagnosis. In other words, while …show more content…
Again, Vermoch (2015, p. 5) illustrated that poor communication between clinicians, patients/families, cultural barriers and medical staff understanding are all challenges in achieving an effective EOLC.
Global Challenges EOLC According to the World Health Organization (WHO), various factors contributes to the hesitancy of EOLC and these are the following: Reluctance to accept death as a natural process, unnecessary medicalization and insistence of defeating the disease (Patel and Kruczynski, 2015, p. SP195). Equally important is the report of Steedman et al. (2014, p. 1613), EOLC is entirely unavailable to low-income nations and if available such as in high-income countries like the United Kingdom, patients with a diagnosis of dementia receives EOLC too late to be efficacious.
Global Innovations of EOLC in Different Countries of the …show more content…
The research of Mueller and Decker (2011, p. 8) show that a patient-centered outcome approach may help the physical therapist identifies patients that may be appropriate for rehabilitation care and offer rehabilitation services as a treatment alternative for a nonpharmacologic management of pain using various heat/cold modalities and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator.
Global Role of Physical Therapy in Addressing EOLC Barawid, Covarrubias, Tribuzio, and Liao (2015, p. 34) made important points that palliative medicine and rehabilitation care are considered to be the two integral part of comprehensive care for individuals with advanced diseases since these interdisciplinary models aim to improve patients level of function and quality of life. Albeit in a global perspective, healthcare legislations of different nations need to understand the benefits of rehabilitation services for EOLC patients to allow allocation of resources to such program.
Define the meaning of end of life care
Determine the global challenges and innovation of end of life care
Discuss the importance of advance directives and planning
Distinguish palliative care from hospice care
Identify the global role of physical therapy in addressing end of life care
End of Life Care
This sensitive subject, although heart wrenching, is vital to all decision makers to know (patient, legal next of kin, physicians) considering that it may affect the treatment decisions of all participants involved.
End of Life Care In the words of Periyakoil (2012), end of life is often a backward-looking diagnosis. In other words, while …show more content…
Again, Vermoch (2015, p. 5) illustrated that poor communication between clinicians, patients/families, cultural barriers and medical staff understanding are all challenges in achieving an effective EOLC.
Global Challenges EOLC According to the World Health Organization (WHO), various factors contributes to the hesitancy of EOLC and these are the following: Reluctance to accept death as a natural process, unnecessary medicalization and insistence of defeating the disease (Patel and Kruczynski, 2015, p. SP195). Equally important is the report of Steedman et al. (2014, p. 1613), EOLC is entirely unavailable to low-income nations and if available such as in high-income countries like the United Kingdom, patients with a diagnosis of dementia receives EOLC too late to be efficacious.
Global Innovations of EOLC in Different Countries of the …show more content…
The research of Mueller and Decker (2011, p. 8) show that a patient-centered outcome approach may help the physical therapist identifies patients that may be appropriate for rehabilitation care and offer rehabilitation services as a treatment alternative for a nonpharmacologic management of pain using various heat/cold modalities and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator.
Global Role of Physical Therapy in Addressing EOLC Barawid, Covarrubias, Tribuzio, and Liao (2015, p. 34) made important points that palliative medicine and rehabilitation care are considered to be the two integral part of comprehensive care for individuals with advanced diseases since these interdisciplinary models aim to improve patients level of function and quality of life. Albeit in a global perspective, healthcare legislations of different nations need to understand the benefits of rehabilitation services for EOLC patients to allow allocation of resources to such program.