Prepared to Accompany the End of Life during Pandemics in Nursing Homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic confronted nursing homes with a variety of challenges to ensure the provision of palliative care for residents. PallPan-Implement aimed to adapt the recommendations of the National Strategy for the Care of Seriously Ill, Dying Adults and their Families in Times of Pandemic (PALLPAN) in such a way that nursing facilities can use and implement them.

Methods

Based on 33 PALLPAN recommendations, we developed a questionnaire, conducted a pilot implementation for selected nursing homes, and asked for qualitative feedback.

Results

The developed questionnaire contains 22 main questions. A three-stage pilot implementation with an introductory event, processing phase, and evaluation event took place in seven facilities. The facilities eva

SUBMITTER: Krumm N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9604931 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature