Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

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Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

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Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

The course Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People is an online class provided by Lancaster University through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Examine how care homes are organised in Europe and how palliative care in care homes can be improved for older people.

Course description

Enhance your personal or professional interest in palliative care in care homes
3 weeks

In most countries, the population of older people is rising. Some older people spend their final phase of life in a care home, nursing home, or long-term care facility. It’s important the staff in care homes know how to provide skilled and compassionate care.
On this course, you will learn how care homes in six European countries can be improved using the research from a project called ‘PACE, Palliative Care for Older People’, funded by the European Commission. Using the PACE Steps to Success programme, you will learn how to improve palliative care in care homes for both residents and staff.

Care homes, including the need for care homes and care homes in your country.
Palliative care – including key components, types of services, pain and symptom management and education.
The six steps in the PACE Steps to Success programme and how to apply them within a care home, including discussing current and future care, mapping changes in an individual’s condition, coordinating care, improving assessment and management of pain and care after death.
Sustaining and keeping change going in palliative care within care homes.
Case studies of good practice from six European countries.

Develop an understanding of palliative care within care homes and its importance to patients, their family carers and healthcare professionals.
Explore how palliative care can be implemented and sustained within a care home.
Engage in online discussion with others and reflect on palliative care provision within care homes in your own country based on your own knowledge and experience.
Assess how palliative care in care homes is managed across six European countries, drawing on results of the PACE project and examples from care home staff within these different countries.
Engage with a number of palliative care topics including: discussing current and future care, mapping changes in an individual’s condition, coordinating care, improving assessment and management of pain, end of life care and care after death.

This course is for staff working in care homes in either a management or caregiving role. This includes staff and volunteers that deliver services in care homes. This course is also ideal for older people and their families wanting to learn more about care homes.

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Prerequisites & Facts

Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

Course Topic

Healthcare & Medicine, Nursing

University, College, Institution

Lancaster University

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Improving Palliative Care in Care Homes for Older People

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Lancaster University you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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