Quality Palliative Care in Long-Term Care

The Quality Palliative Care in Long Term Care Alliance is comprised of 38 organizational partners and 27 researchers who will actively contribute their expertise to a five-year comparative case study research project, Improving Quality of Life for People Dying in Long Term Care Homes.

The primary goal of the research is to create a community-university research alliance that will develop sustainable, person-focused care palliative care programs using a capacity development process which is consistent with the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association's Square of Care.

Some of the tools already created include: Organization Self-Assessment Tool; Staff Grief and Loss Reading List; Spirituality In-service; Music Utilization in LTC; Butterfly Indicator and Comfort Care Rounds Module.

For more information on this initiative please visit the site here.