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Palliatieve zorg bij dementie en de ontmanteling van de behandelfunctie van het verpleeghuis

Auteur: C. M. P. M. Hertogh

Gepubliceerd in: Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie | Uitgave 1/2007

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Abstract

Palliative care in dementia and the dismantlement of nursing home medicinePalliative care is mostly restricted to the terminal phase of incurable illness. According to the WHO revised definition palliative care is specifically directed towards patients and families facing life-threatening illness. This definition is not adequate to orient and direct palliative care policies in non-cancer diseases such as dementia. Although dementia is incurable from the outset, its course is often protracted, resulting in a terminal stage only after several years. This disease trajectory necessitates an alternative palliative approach, implying a proactive attitude of nursing home physicians in facilitating early and timely discussions with patients and their proxies on advance care planning and treatment of complications and concomitant diseases. This, together with their specific training in the treatment of the long term sequelae of chronic diseases, defines the success of Dutch nursing home medicine in foregoing inappropriate hospital admissions and providing adequate medical care in the nursing home. However, recent reorganisations of nursing home care and its funding threaten to downgrade the quality of medical care for patients with dementia in Dutch nursing homes by focusing unilaterally on welfare ideology and ‘marketization’ of long term care, thus underestimating the importance of a palliative care policy in dementia.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Palliatieve zorg bij dementie en de ontmanteling van de behandelfunctie van het verpleeghuis
Auteur
C. M. P. M. Hertogh
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2007
Uitgeverij
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Gepubliceerd in
Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie / Uitgave 1/2007
Print ISSN: 0167-9228
Elektronisch ISSN: 1875-6832
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03074817