SCOPE, ROLE & FUNCTIONS OF CCW in relation to

PALLIATIVE CARE

Acknowledge with thanks,

Power Point slides contribution from Hospice Palliative Care Associations

Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death

Offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and in their own bereavement

Uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counseling, if indicated

Palliative Care

Will enhance quality of life

May positively influence the course of illness

Is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to therapy, or antiretroviral therapy and includes those prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications

Community HBC Programme

CBO

NGOS

HOSPITALS

FBOS

CCW

HOSPICE

PATIENT+FAMILY

MICRO COMMUNITY

MACRO COMMUNITY

ICHC MODEL

PALLIATIVE CARE HAS TWO ESSENTIALS

Supportive care (present in many home care services)

Pain and symptom control using the methods researched since 1967

The following are not palliative care:Supportive care without pain and symptom control using

the researched methodsPain and symptom control without supportive and holistic

care

CCW Provide Access to Care

Palliative components gives special care for the impoverished and under served with emphasis on those falling through the cracks

Patient identification, support, referrals, education….

Inter-disciplinary TeamCCW as PART of a team (Dr,

Nurses, Social workers, OT, physio, spiritual, etc)

More than multi - patient moves between all as required

A professional nurse supervises HBC delivered by trained CCW, caregivers and volunteers

Pain and Symptom Control

Is the core of CCW workCCW taught to use a specific tool

to categorize for referral and support

High quality training essentialCultural norms are respected

Holistic Care

Patients AND their families have access to physical, psycho-social and spiritual care

Pediatric Palliative care

Appropriate plans are developed and initiated with regard to the care of children

Bereavement Care

The bereaved are supported during the process of mourning and their adjustment to loss

(includes wills, memory boxes, etc)

Care of Caregivers

A program for providing holistic support to community caregivers and volunteers is incorporated into HBC

The need for palliative care in our country has never been greater…

The need for acknowledged and well trained and supported CCW in our country has never been greater…