The added value of palliative day care centres: A full-population cross-sectional survey among clients and their family caregivers in Flanders, Belgium.

Health & Social Care in the Community
Sigrid DierickxKenneth Chambaere

Abstract

In addition to palliative care delivery at home or in hospital, palliative day care centres occupy an in-between position in palliative care. In palliative day care centres, multidisciplinary teams provide holistic care and support for people with (chronic) life-limiting conditions, or clients, in a homely surrounding, allowing them to remain living at home while attending a specialist palliative care service. This study aims to evaluate palliative day care centres from a user perspective. We conducted a full-population cross-sectional survey of clients (N = 86) and their family caregivers (N = 63) in all five palliative day care centres in Flanders, Belgium from January until December 2019. We used validated instruments supplemented with self-developed items to measure participants' reasons for use, support provided, unmet support needs and added value to other (palliative) care services across palliative care domains, i.e., physical, psychological, social and spiritual care. Response rate was 77% for clients and 81% for family caregivers. The most often indicated reasons for use were that the client needs social contacts (clients: 73%, caregivers: 65%), to enable the client to live at home as long as possible (resp. 58%, 55%)...Continue Reading

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