Palliative care and nursing homes
Leroy, Yves-Antoine
Palliative care and nursing homes - 2020.
96
Two kinds of clinical practices appear to be almost identical: supporting the final stages of life in palliative care units and end-of-life care in nursing homes. In practice, it is difficult for these two worlds to meet because they possess their own language and culture. In this paper, we report on annual meetings between psychologists working in nursing homes and those working in palliative care units.In doing so, we want to highlight the possibility of creating a group that deals with a shared clinical reality: the aging person in the final stage of his or her life in a residential care setting. The story of these annual meetings begins in 2013. Our common work found fertile ground in several aspects: in nursing homes’ call for specialists in the dying process, in the feeling of helplessness in the face of these clinical practices, in the role of families, in the expectation of a kind of “talking about death”, in the influence of different places of dying, and in the effects of the label “palliative care.”We will analyze our last meeting in 2018 as a clinical situation. This will allow us to consider the possible meeting points when we want to create bridges between the world of nursing homes and that of palliative care.
Palliative care and nursing homes - 2020.
96
Two kinds of clinical practices appear to be almost identical: supporting the final stages of life in palliative care units and end-of-life care in nursing homes. In practice, it is difficult for these two worlds to meet because they possess their own language and culture. In this paper, we report on annual meetings between psychologists working in nursing homes and those working in palliative care units.In doing so, we want to highlight the possibility of creating a group that deals with a shared clinical reality: the aging person in the final stage of his or her life in a residential care setting. The story of these annual meetings begins in 2013. Our common work found fertile ground in several aspects: in nursing homes’ call for specialists in the dying process, in the feeling of helplessness in the face of these clinical practices, in the role of families, in the expectation of a kind of “talking about death”, in the influence of different places of dying, and in the effects of the label “palliative care.”We will analyze our last meeting in 2018 as a clinical situation. This will allow us to consider the possible meeting points when we want to create bridges between the world of nursing homes and that of palliative care.
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