Tuesday June 22
PhD defense (UvA), 12.00 h, Agnietenkapel
Isabelle Flierman: Timely palliative care for elderly patients
Healthcare professionals should be given more education about entering into a conversation about the end of life. Education about the benefits of timely palliative care could also be improved, in order to recognize the palliative needs of older patients during hospitalization in good time. Fliermans writes about this in her dissertation. The first part focuses on the question of how hospital professionals determine the palliative phase of patients and to what extent there are instruments that can help with this.
In part two, Flierman describes how the collaboration between the hospital and the home situation works for palliative patients. She also investigated whether transmural palliative care interventions can reduce the number of hospital admissions and whether more people die at their preferred location as a result of these interventions.
From early identification to better transmural collaboratio
Source: Amsterdam UMC
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