Professionals´ readiness for change to knowledge-based palliative care at nursing homes: a qualitative follow-up study after an educational intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been a global increase in the number of people who are dying of old age. This development implies a need for good palliative care among older persons at the end of life. Here nursing homes have an important role to play. However, the principles of palliative care have not been sufficiently applied in nursing homes, and there is a need to increase the implementation of palliative care in these settings. Therefore the project named Implementation of Knowledge-Based Palliative Care in Nursing Homes (the KUPA project, to use its Swedish acronym) was started as a contribution to filling this knowledge gap. The aim of the present study was to investigate the professionals' experiences of readiness for change to knowledge-based palliative care at nursing homes after t

SUBMITTER: Persson HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9412037 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature