HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Health Professional, Family Caregivers, Ernest Becker
11 Apr 2016
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Learning objectives: discuss western attitudes toward death and dying, palliative/hospice/care, accomplished and challenges surrounding palliative care and elderly canadians, the elderly and mourning and grief. Palliative care in canada: history, the history of the hospice palliative care movement in canada is a relatively short - beginning in the 1970"s, 1974 the rst palliative care unit opened at st boniface hospital in winnipeg. Objectives of palliative care: pain management, symptom management, support: psychological, emotional and spiritual for individual and family, caregiver support, health care provider assistance and advice, instruction on physical care, home support services, relief for caregivers. Palliative care services : who provides palliative care, multidisciplinary approach, where is palliative care provided, at home, long term care facilities, hospitals, hospices, the internet. Caregivers: there are only four kinds of people in this world: those who have been caregivers; those who currently are caregivers; those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.
