Title: Personalized care at the end of life: from policy to practice
Abstract: What does good, personalized care look like for the person approaching the end of life? ‘Help with hair and makeup’, ‘spoon feeding me out of view of the other residents’, ‘placing cards from relatives in view, rather than behind my bed’, and ‘staff who telephone back’ are the sorts of answers the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) receives from patients and their carers. For some time now decision-makers in the UK have sought to embed the ‘personal approach’ to health and social care services into policy documents. Not many would argue with the idea of personcentred services. Indeed, letting the patient know that they—the person—are what is important to the professionals is a key part of enabling that person to have a good death. However, while the Government’s Green Paper on social care last summer made it clear that the personalization agenda is a top priority for the Department of Health (DH), it did not explicitly explain what this would look like in practice for people at the end of life.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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