Scaling out a palliative compassionate community innovation: Nav-CARE.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an urgent need for community-based interventions that can be scaled up to meet the growing demand for palliative care. The purpose of this study was to scale out a volunteer navigation intervention called Nav-CARE by replicating the program in multiple contexts and evaluating feasibility, acceptability, sustainability, and impact.

Methods

This was a scale-out implementation and mixed-method evaluation study. Nav-CARE was implemented in 12 hospice and 3 nonhospice community-based organizations spanning five provinces in Canada. Volunteers visited clients in the home approximately every 2 weeks for 1 year with some modifications required by the COVID-19 public health restrictions. Qualitative evaluation data were collected from key informants (n = 26

SUBMITTER: Pesut B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9112317 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature