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Wilson DM, Truman C, Huang J, et al. Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared?. Healthc Policy. 2007;2(4):58-69
Wilson, D. M., Truman, C., Huang, J., Sheps, S., Birch, S., Thomas, R., & Noseworthy, T. (2007). Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared?. Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 2(4), 58-69.
Wilson, Donna M, et al. "Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared?." Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante vol. 2,4 (2007): 58-69.
Wilson DM, Truman C, Huang J, Sheps S, Birch S, Thomas R, Noseworthy T. Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared?. Healthc Policy. 2007 May;2(4):58-69. PMID: 19305733; PMCID: PMC2585466.
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Healthc Policy. 2007 May;2(4):58-69.

Home care evolution in alberta: how have palliative clients fared?.

Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante

Donna M Wilson, Corrine Truman, Joe Huang, Sam Sheps, Stephen Birch, Roger Thomas, Tom Noseworthy

Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

PMID: 19305733 PMCID: PMC2585466

Abstract

This study compared palliative and non-palliative home care clients, services and providers, and described changes over a decade of health system reform (1991/92-2000/01). Complete individual-anonymous data from Alberta's home care database were analyzed. Over these 10 years, 7.0% of all home care clients were classified as palliative. The proportion of home care clients who were classified as palliative varied from 2.2% to 9.6% among health regions. The number of palliative clients more than doubled, although this growth was less than that of short-term clients. Home support aides were the most common home care provider, and personal care was the most common service provided to all clients. Although the average number of care hours prior to death for palliative clients increased from 40.9 to 87.9 hours, the relatively small amount of home care provided to dying persons raises concerns about informal caregiver burden and possible overreliance on hospitals to provide end-of-life care.

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