Valuing End-of-Life Care for Older People with Advanced Cancer: Is Dying at Home Important?

Author(s):  
Patricia Kenny ◽  
Deborah J. Street ◽  
Jane Hall ◽  
Meera Agar ◽  
Jane Phillips
2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (640) ◽  
pp. e724-e730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda WH Penders ◽  
Lieve Van den Block ◽  
Gé A Donker ◽  
Luc Deliens ◽  
Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Kjellstadli ◽  
Heather Allore ◽  
Bettina S Husebo ◽  
Elisabeth Flo ◽  
Hogne Sandvik ◽  
...  

Abstract Background General practitioners (GPs) may play an important role in providing end-of-life care to community-dwelling people. Objective To investigate patients' contacts with GPs, GPs' interdisciplinary collaboration, out-of-hours services and hospitalizations in the last 13 weeks of life and associations with dying at home. Second, investigate whether GP contacts were associated with fewer out-of-hours contacts or days hospitalized. Methods Individually linked data from the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, Norwegian Patient Registry, Statistics Norway and Control and Payment of Reimbursement to Health Service Providers database for all 80 813 deceased people in Norway within 2012–13. Outcomes were analyzed with logistic regression and negative binomial multilevel mixed-effect models. Results Overall, 1% of people received GP home visits in Week 13 and 4.6% in the last week before death. During the last 4 weeks of life, 9.2% received one or more GP home visits. Altogether, 6.6% received one or more home visits when the GP had one or more interdisciplinary collaborations during the last 4 weeks, of which <3% died at home. GP office consultations decreased towards the end of life. The likelihood of home death versus another location increased in relation to GP home visits [one home visit odds ratio (OR) 1.92, confidence interval (CI) 1.71–2.15; two or more OR 3.49, CI 3.08–3.96] and GP interdisciplinary collaboration (one contact OR 1.76, CI 1.59–1.96; two or more OR 2.52, CI 2.32–2.74). Conclusions GPs play a role in enabling people to die at home by performing home visits and collaborating with other health care personnel. Only a minority received such services in Norway.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 389-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Yeun-Sim Jeong ◽  
Isabel Higgins ◽  
Margaret McMillan

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Jennifer Beggs ◽  
Celina Handalage ◽  
Alice Jundi ◽  
Eileen Burns

Guidance from the British Geriatrics Society provides practical advice to support healthcare professionals who are involved in caring for frail, older people in the last phase of life.


2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihisa Hirakawa ◽  
Yuichiro Masuda ◽  
Masafumi Kuzuya ◽  
Akihisa Iguchi ◽  
Takiko Asahi ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Payne ◽  
Katherine Froggatt ◽  
Eamon O'shea ◽  
Kathy Murphy ◽  
Philip Larkin ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 758-766 ◽  
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Claire Goodman ◽  
Derek King ◽  
Yi Ting Ng ◽  
Natasha Elmore ◽  
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