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Being accepted being me: understanding the end of life care needs for older LGBT people
- Authors:
- ALMACK Kathryn, NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PALLIATIVE CARE
- Publishers:
- University of Nottingham, National Council for Palliative Care
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide aims to help health and social care staff and volunteers better understand the needs of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people at the end of life. It sets out some of the key concerns that older LGBT people have in relation to end of life care, outlines a number of discussion points, and suggests ways forward to develop practice. It also highlights a range of useful resources. The guide will help health and social care staff and volunteers to learn more about listening, understanding and responding to the unique needs of LGBT people. The guide has been jointly produced by the University of Nottingham and NCPC. (Edited publisher abstract)
The National End of Life Care Programme: evaluating the programme's work to support and promote the integration of social and health care: additional report
- Authors:
- SEYMOUR Jane, ALMACK Kathryn
- Publisher:
- University of Nottingham
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
The National End of Life Care Programme was set up in 2008 with the key objective of working across social and health care to implement the End of Life Care Strategy and improve end of life care for all. The Programme’s social care workstream has seen the appointment of 2 Social Care Leads, published a social care framework ‘Supporting people to live and die well’, and undertaken Phase 1 of its implementation. The aim of this supplementary report is to evaluate the Programme’s social care activities and assess their impact on supporting and promoting the integration of social and health care. Telephone interviews were carried out with 10 key stakeholders between September and November 2011. The interviews explored the views of the stakeholders with regards to: the effectiveness of the appointment of social care leads in promoting integrated end of life care; key issues which need to be addressed to achieve good quality end of life care, including factors which facilitate or inhibit progress towards the integration of health and social care; the social care framework; and stakeholders’ involvement and awareness of the Phase 1 roadshows and test sites to address the framework’s key objectives. The findings demonstrate that the first stage of implementation of the social care framework has established a solid base on which to move forward into the second phase of this programme of work.