Improving palliative care for people with intellectual disability: a self-assessment of policies, practices and competencies in care services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing care for ageing and vulnerable people with intellectual disability (ID) is challenging, and professionals working in ID care often have limited experience in palliative care. The current study provides insight into palliative care practices in ID care services and competencies of professionals and identifies ways to improve palliative care for people with ID.

Methods

For this study ten services in the Netherlands were recruited that provide care for people with mild to profound ID. Professionals in each of these services conducted a self-assessment of their palliative care policies and practices based on nine core element of palliative care described in the Dutch Quality Framework for Palliative Care. The self-assessment included a medical file review of

SUBMITTER: Voss H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10362573 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature