Palliative care in small-scale living facilities: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Innovative small-scale facilities for dementia focus on providing quality of life and maintaining the functional abilities of residents while offering residents a home for life. To fulfill the home-for-life principle, palliative care approaches are necessary to maintain quality of life in these facilities. Few studies have reported on how palliative care is provided to residents in small-scale facilities. The aim of our review is to determine the extent to which palliative care approaches are reported in small-scale facilities.

Methods

A scoping review of the literature using recommended methods from the Joanna Briggs Institute. Four databases, CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science, were searched for studies published from 1995 to 2023. One reviewer complet

SUBMITTER: DeGraves BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11344427 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature