Associations between home death and the use and type of care at home

Associations between home death and the use and type of care at home

2^nd International Conference on Palliative Care
September 23-24, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic

Rebecca McEwen,Yukiko Asada, Frederick Burge and Beverley Lawson

County of Frontenac, Canada Dalhousie University, Canada

Scientific Tracks Abstracts : J Prim Care Gen Pract

Abstract:

Despite 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.

Biography:

Rebecca McEwen completed her MSc in community health & epidemiology from Dalhousie University, Canada. She recently completed her postgraduate 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

E-mail: rebeccaamcewen1@gmail.com

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