tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894771369574668254.post5575805507748117690..comments2023-05-12T04:04:02.729-07:00Comments on Liverpool Care Pathway: A National Scandal: Liverpool Care Pathway – Is This For What We Are Destined?Eldoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16160281149545272697noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894771369574668254.post-14092712625132953162012-11-25T15:04:23.958-08:002012-11-25T15:04:23.958-08:00And then there's this...
"Euroimpact -a ...And then there's this...<br /><br />"Euroimpact -a European training network funded by Marie Curie and the European Commission."<br /><br />"EUROIMPACT - On your way to an international PhD in palliative care (EU FP7 Marie Curie)<br />Start date: <br />December 2010<br />End date: <br />November 2014<br /><br />Together with the leading centers of excellence in palliative care in Europa, EURO IMPACT is working hard to develop an educational and research training framework, aimed at monitoring and improving the quality of palliative care.<br /><br />...please take a minute to visit our website and become as fascinated by this project as we are...<br /><br /> <br />EURO IMPACT is funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme<br />(FP7/2007-2013, under grant agreement nr [264697])"<br /><br /> <br />http://www.endoflifecare.be/euroimpact<br /><br />Take a look at who is involved.Harlow bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534534725558939316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894771369574668254.post-83723088668930908862012-11-25T14:14:39.744-08:002012-11-25T14:14:39.744-08:00One of the reasons I keep banging on about the EU&...One of the reasons I keep banging on about the EU's involvement in the LCP and so called End Of Life is because of this:<br /><br />"Quality of Life in Old Age until the End - Dialogue between Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine."<br /><br />"There is urgency to develop palliative care services for elderly patients, experts say. For this reason, the Vice-President of the European Parliament Gianni Pittella, in collaboration with the Maruzza Lefebvre Foundation, promoted a first ever dialogue between palliative medicine and geriatrics at an EU level. The event took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on September 25th, 2012.<br /><br />At this occasion, the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC Onlus) and the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) unveiled a joint manifesto promoting a European action plan on palliative care and geriatrics. <br /><br />The objective is to improve the quality of life of elderly patients with chronic diseases and cut back on health care costs by up to 60 per cent. <br /><br />Its ultimate scope is to insert geriatric palliative care in the EU agenda, hoping it becomes a human right one day.<br /><br />John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, and Mario Mauro, Head of Delegation of the Pdl to the European Parliament, intervened. The event is embedded into the framework of the European Year for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Manifesto<br /><br />Better Palliative Care for Older People<br /><br />European populations are ageing: 80% of citizens are dying over the age of 70 years. Increasing numbers of people are living with frailty and disability, and dying with multiple chronic diseases. Appropriate and effective management of symptoms (pain, breathlessness, fatigue, depression and other distressing problems) is often lacking; this results in poor quality of life and loss of dignity. Too frequently, older people undergo unnecessary examinations, treatments, hospitalizations and admissions to intensive care.<br /><br />This is burdensome and expensive for the patient, family and society. Access to high quality palliative care for older people, and closer interaction between geriatric and palliative multidisciplinary teams, would better meet people’s needs and save health and social care costs.<br /><br />WE CALL UPON EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS AND EU INSTITUTIONS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY OLDER CITIZEN WITH CHRONIC DISEASES, ESPECIALLY AT AN ADVANCED STAGE, IS OFERED THE BEST POSSIBLE PALLIATIVE CARE APPROACH WHEREVER THEY ARE CARED FOR.<br /><br />This could be achieved by:<br /><br />1. Recognizing that older people with chronic diseases have the right to the best possible palliative care approach. EU Institutions should delineate a palliative care strategy that encompasses older people with chronic diseases and this should be included as a top priority of national health care cpolicies.<br /><br />2. Promoting public awareness EU institutions should empower older people and families, and promote public awareness of palliative care in society.<br /><br />3. Promoting a collaborative affort between geriatric and palliative medicaine EU. EU institutions should facilitate the collaboration between geriatric and palliative medicine to foster synergies, and to design a plan for developing areas of common interest.<br /><br />4. Investing in education EU Institutions should recommend that all clinicians and care workers involved in the care fo older people and their families have core competences in palliative care. These competences should be part of under-graduate, post=graduate and continuing education.<br /><br />5. Investing<br /><br /><br /><br />Unifying geriatric and palliative care, cutting health care costs by an unthinkable amount, palliative care for chronic illnesses of older people.<br /><br />Frightening, isn't it? The only way I can think of that the EU - which, bear in mind, now makes some 80% of UK's laws - could possibly cut health care costs by 60% chills me to the marrow.Harlow bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534534725558939316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894771369574668254.post-19432235640817622322012-11-23T04:42:12.717-08:002012-11-23T04:42:12.717-08:00What a great post by Nikki Kenward and so very tru...What a great post by Nikki Kenward and so very true. Were most of us in Nikki's position - and many of us will be, one day - few of us would be content to be treated as a disposable life and a less than human being in the way Nikki clearly is. Keep on fighting, Nikki, you have massive respect from me and others even if you aren't afforded it by some members of the medical profession.<br /><br />Tony Nicklinson: what struck me most about Mr Nicklinson's bid for assisted suicide was that he was so very afraid, not just of his condition becoming even more intolerable, but of of being placed on the Liverpool Pathway to death. <br /><br />Mr Nicklinson went to great pains to tell us that he wished to be assisted to die at a time of his choosing, when he decided that his life was intolerable rather than suffer what he viewed as a cruel death by thirst, starvation and drugs.<br />Harlow bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15534534725558939316noreply@blogger.com