Palliative care for older people: A public health perspective
Lieve Van den Block, Gwenda Albers, Sandra Martins Pereira, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Roeline Pasman, and Luc Deliens
Abstract
Populations around the world are ageing rapidly; a growing number of people will live to older ages, will experience multiple and complex chronic conditions, and will need some form of care towards the end of their lives. The ageing of society is becoming a major public health issue, posing challenges to social and health care structures in many countries. This book demonstrates the added value of palliative care which, although traditionally focused on cancer and the very end of life, can play a role in strengthening and complementing the care of older people. The book outlines the current st ... More
Populations around the world are ageing rapidly; a growing number of people will live to older ages, will experience multiple and complex chronic conditions, and will need some form of care towards the end of their lives. The ageing of society is becoming a major public health issue, posing challenges to social and health care structures in many countries. This book demonstrates the added value of palliative care which, although traditionally focused on cancer and the very end of life, can play a role in strengthening and complementing the care of older people. The book outlines the current state of worldwide policy work, research, and innovations in the field of public health and palliative care for older people and concludes with recommendations for policy and decision makers, at international and national level, to support integrating palliative care widely into health care systems in order to improve access to and quality of palliative care for older people.
Keywords:
palliative care,
public health,
older people,
ageing,
end of life,
policy making,
health care structures
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198717614 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717614.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lieve Van den Block, editor
End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
Gwenda Albers, editor
End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
Sandra Martins Pereira, editor
Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Expertise Center for Palliative Care, VU University medical center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, editor
EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Expertise Center for Palliative Care, VU University medical center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Roeline Pasman, editor
Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Expertise Center for Palliative Care, VU University medical center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Luc Deliens, editor
End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
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