Palliative Care in Residential Care: A Practice Improvement Model
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Palliative Care in Residential Care a practice improvement module
Feburary 25th, 2016
Community Geriatrics
UBC Department of Family Practice
Tim Sakaluk, Medical Director Vancouver Home Hospice
Palliative Care Services
Umilla Stead Leader, End-of-life Care
Residential Care
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28.4
33.8
29.3
% of Deaths in Canada by Disease Trajectory
Sudden Death
Terminal Illness
Organ Failure
Frailty
Other
Raising the Bar, S. Carstairs 2010
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Introducing palliative care early has been shown to result in:
A higher quality of life
Fewer depressive symptoms (16% vs 38%)
Fewer received aggressive end of life care (33% vs 54%)
Longer median survival (11.6 months vs 8.9 months, P =0.02)
Temel, JS et al. Early palliative care for patients with metastatic non-
small-cell lung cancer. N Engl J Med 2010;363:733-42.
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Palliative care: a population approach to care
Specialty
palliative
services
co-manage
Specialty support
to patient from
palliative services
Support to primary
physician from palliative
services
Primary physician manages
patient care needs
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Vision Create a culture shift to improve the quality of living and dying for clients with advanced frailty and dementia
in residential care
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Module objectives
Upon completion of the module, participants will be able to:
Identify residents who would benefit from a palliative approach to care
Facilitate Goals of Care conversations with residents and their families
Assess and manage end of life symptoms on-site
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Who was involved?
Collaborative project between: – Practice Support Program (PSP)
– Vancouver Division of Family Practice
– Community Geriatrics, UBC Department of Family Practice
– Vancouver Home Hospice Palliative Care Services, VCH
Participating teams: one physician + two facility staff
Fifteen facilities agreed to participate – 14 completed.
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Implementing learning
Start with residents who have hospital transfer
orders on file
Use Frailty and Dementia staging tools to facilitate
Goals of Care Conversations
1-hour Goals of Care staff education
Build in time at existing meetings for GOC practice
Teach tools for staging tools to staff so they can
identify residents appropriate for palliative approach
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What has shifted?
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What else has changed?
53% scored 4-5
62% scored 4-5
50% scored 4-5
87% scored 4-5
96% scored 4-5
96% scored 4-5
Staging frailty
Staging dementia
Communicating prognosis to families
Participants who rated confidence level as confident or very confident with:
Series6
Series7
Pre-module
6 months Post-module
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photo via upsplash.com
This is just the beginning…
Further training and support
Establishing a community of practice
Reaching other physicians