Patients who lack a data to inform home caregiver and the optimal combination of who are specialist and generalist socioeconomically provision, the role of nurses disadvantaged are less vs. other health likely to have access to professionals, and the community necessary scope of practice and expertise in different A better understanding service contexts. of the barriers and facilitators for A better understanding also remaining at home is is needed of who will needed, including benefit most from detailed exploration of community-based known drivers of SPCSs and the configuration hospital admission of nursing services near the time of death, required to meet patient such as problems with and caregiver symptom needs. management. Health professionals assessing the suitability of individual patients for home care would be assisted by validated tools for evaluating the viability of home death. Tools for assessing prognosis (with the aim of avoiding acute care admissions for people who are dying and prefer to die at home) also are required. Improved targeting of services will become increasingly important as Western populations age and informal caregivers
Patients who lack a home caregiver and who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are less likely to have access to community A better understanding of the barriers and facilitators for remaining at home is needed, including detailed exploration of known drivers of hospital admission near the time of death, such as problems with symptom management. data to inform the optimal combination of specialist and generalist provision, the role of nurses vs. other health professionals, and the necessary scope of practice and expertise in different service contexts. A better understanding also is needed of who will benefit most from community-based SPCSs and the configuration of nursing services required to meet patient and caregiver needs. Health professionals assessing the suitability of individual patients for home care would be assisted by validated tools for evaluating the viability of home death. Tools for assessing prognosis (with the aim of avoiding acute care admissions for people who are dying and prefer to die at home) also are required. Improved targeting of services will become increasingly important as Western populations age and informal caregivers
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