Jan 17, 2019
This episode features Dr Ann Dadich (Western
Sydney University, Austrailia)
Specialist home-based palliative care can improve symptom
management and quality of life and prevent hospitalisation at the
end-of-life. There is significant variation in how
home-based palliative care is delivered, even within similar
jurisdictions. The clinical practices and contextual factors
that enable exemplary palliative care are not well
understood. The study identified some of the characteristics
that enable brilliant home-based palliative care – notably:
anticipatory aptitude and action; a weave of commitment among
different individuals, within and beyond a palliative care service;
flexible adaptability; and team capacity-building. Using the
combined methodology of positive organisational scholarship in
healthcare and video-reflexive ethnography, this study also
revealed the importance of context in delivering brilliant
home-based palliative care. The aforesaid conditions can be
adapted for use within other services, particularly those committed
to brilliant palliative care. Despite the contributions of
this study, policies are required to guide and sustain brilliant
home-based palliative care across different settings.
Full paper available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269216318807835
If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or
accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara
Nwosu: anwosu@liverpool.ac.uk