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September 23-24, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic
2
nd
International Conference on
Palliative Care
Clinical Trials and Pharmacovigilance
Joint Event
&
Associations between home death and the use and type of care at home
Rebecca McEwen
1
, Yukiko Asada
2
, Frederick Burge
2
and
Beverley Lawson
2
1
County of Frontenac, Canada
2
Dalhousie University, Canada
D
espite wishes for and benefits of home deaths, a
discrepancy between preferred and actual location of
death persists. Provision of home care may be an effective
policy response to support home deaths. Using the
population-based mortality follow-back study conducted in
Nova Scotia, we investigated the associations between home
death and formal care at home and between home death
and the type of formal care at home. We found (1) the use
of formal care at home at the end of life was associated with
home death and (2) the use of formal home support services
at home was associated with home death among those
whose symptoms were well managed.
Speaker Biography
Rebecca McEwen completed her MSc in community health & epidemiology
from Dalhousie University, Canada. She recently completed her post-
graduate primary health care nurse practitioner diploma from Queen’s
University, Canada. She has been the clinical co-lead for the Northwest
Local Health Integration Network’s Regional Palliative Care Program and is
currently a facilitator for the learning essential approaches to palliative care
program. She is collaborating with Trent University to develop a graduate
diploma in dementia studies. She will be the nurse practitioner for the
County of Frontenac- Fairmount Home
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