Improving end‐of‐life care in the care home sector

Abstract

A project was instigated in October 2005 to improve the end-of-life care of care home (nursing) residents across South-East Wales through coordinating the implementation of the All-Wales Integrated Care Pathway for the last days of life. One of the key areas of responsibility for the project coordinator was to evaluate the current level of palliative care knowledge and skills held by care home staff participating in the project. There are currently 112 care homes (nursing) in South-East Wales and the project has provided some level of education on end-of-life care to nursing staff from 58 (52%) of those care homes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.