Maintenance of physical, psychological, and social functioning is important to ensure optimal quality of life for people with life-limiting conditions and their families.
Overview
Topic 5: Optimising function in palliative care will help you develop your understanding of how to provide support for people with life-limiting conditions and their families. In particular, it focuses on issues of loss and establishing goals of care.
Aims & Objectives
After completing this topic, you should be able to:
- recognise the different responses and emotions of people living with life-limiting conditions and their families
- discuss strategies for facilitating collaborative decision-making on care goals with people with life-limiting conditions and their families
- identify management strategies that will optimise physical, psychological and social function for people with life-limiting conditions and their families.
Sessions
describe the range of experiences of loss at the end of life
Common experiences of loss at the end of life
Case story – Bob’s story
describe strategies for establishing goals of care for people with life-limiting conditions
describe the role of advance care planning in palliative care
describe ethical and legal considerations impacting people with life-limiting conditions
Establishing goals of care
Family meetings
Documenting goals of care
Advance care planning
Ethical considerations
– Collusion, disclosure and ‘truth telling’
– Case study – Mrs Li’s story
– Organ and tissue donation
identify strategies and resources to optimise function for people with life limiting conditions
Outline the management of malignant wounds at end of life
Assessing and supporting function
Role of allied health in supporting function
Role of communities and caregivers in supporting function
Case study – Supporting Bob’s functional status
Malignant wounds