Community supported end of life care
- Conditions
- Advanced illnessPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12620000326998
- Lead Sponsor
- WA Country Health Service (WACHS) - South West
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
The patient cohort will include people who have an awareness of their advanced illness and are likely to die within the next 12 months, as advised by the palliative care service. This cohort will specifically include those with frequent hospital usage and people at risk of hospitalisation for palliative care including patients with Cancer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Heart Failure or Renal disease and other chronic conditions such as neurodegenerative conditions. In addition, recruited patients must have unmet social and practical needs, be socially isolated and rely on just one other person to meet the majority of their everyday needs. Patients and carers must be 18 years and older. All participants need to have capacity to provide informed consent.
Cognitive impairment and those not current clients of the palliative service
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method