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Chapter 18: Palliative Care
Overview:
- Using an everyday example, this chapter highlights the principles of palliative care in a nursing home
- Included is a checklist of desirable features of palliative care
- The importance of communication with those who advocate for dementia patients is discussed
- The issues surrounding spiritual care and resuscitation of palliative care patients are addressed
Description:
This chapter details, by means of practical everyday examples, the benefits of offering palliative care to people dying with dementia - benefits that are shared by residents, staff, families and the whole nursing home community. It addresses common concerns.
Topics:
- Commencing palliative care
- Interdependent relationships
- Care planning
- Issues in risk management
- The importance of communication
- Resuscitation
- Spiritual care
- The ordinary human encounter
- Measuring the quality of palliative care
Speaker / Author:
Dr Rosalie Hudson
Rosalie has a varied nursing and theological career which is now focused on aged care and palliative care. As an aged-care consultant she explores end-of-life issues for people in residential aged care, and as an author, teacher, and associate professor with the University of Melbourne (Australia) she seeks to raise the profile of gerontic nursing. Rosalie has presented and published numerous papers and articles internationally on the subjects of spirituality, palliative care, dementia, pastoral care, and ethics at the end of life. She has co-authored two books on death and dying, and has contributed chapters to several other Ausmed publications.
Rosalie has had 12 years’ experience as a director of nursing of a 50 bed nursing home and, more recently, has served as the Victorian project officer for the Australian Palliative Aged Care Project. She enjoys family life with her husband, adult children, and grandchildren.
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