THE AVAILABILITY AND QUALITY OF PALLIATIVE AND HOSPICE CARE ENSURING IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTEXT.
Wiad Lek
; 75(5 pt 1): 1112-1117, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1912736
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Theaim:
To study the availability, quality and features of outpatient palliative and hospice care (PHC) to the population, including the elderly, in the COVID-19 pandemic context in order to optimize the PHC-mobile-teams service. PATIENTS ANDMETHODS:
Materials andmethods:
Domestic and foreign literary sources; sociological research results. The researchmethods:
biblio-semantic, sociological (questionnaires), systemic approach and systemic analysis, conventional medical-statistical methods.RESULTS:
Results:
Based on the analysis of international regulatory documents, domestic and foreign literary sources, the socio-medical importance of PHC is shown. In Ukraine, as in other countries, the number of elderly people is constantly growing, which leads to an increase in the PHC need. The results of the sociological survey determine PHC needs in terms of age showed that in Ukraine almost 78.86% of people in need of PHC were aged 60 and over; the most popular (86.0% of responses) were PHC-mobile-teams and home-based services; about 80% of respondents said that pain limited their ability to work and affected on their psycho-emotional state and their quality of life; 86.3% of respondents reported an pain increased after COVID-19. The results of an online survey showed the effectiveness of PHC-mobile-teams service by improving the availability of PHC.CONCLUSION:
Conclusions:
To ensure high-quality PHC availability it should be integrated at the Health and Social Care Systems. According to the experience of the Kyiv PHC-mobile-teams service, it significantly increases PHC availability, which is especially important in the COVID-19 pandemic context.Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Hospice Care
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Aged
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Wiad Lek
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
WLek202205111
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