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What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs?
As the population ages, the number of older populations globally requiring palliative care is rapidly growing, requiring services of multidisciplinary teams—including community pharmacists. The aim of this study is to describe the community pharmacists’ perceived role in providing services to commun...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8143164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33919247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050489 |
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author | Tait, Paul Chakraborty, Amal Jones, Kelly Tieman, Jennifer |
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description | As the population ages, the number of older populations globally requiring palliative care is rapidly growing, requiring services of multidisciplinary teams—including community pharmacists. The aim of this study is to describe the community pharmacists’ perceived role in providing services to community dwelling older Australians receiving palliative care. Utilising an eight-domain End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) care model, a national cross-sectional questionnaire was designed and undertaken online with Australian community pharmacists. Respondents were asked questions relating to socio-demographic characteristics, practice characteristics, and scope of services provided. Of the 62 pharmacists who responded to the questionnaire, 51 were included in the final data analysis and reporting. Pharmacists working in dispensing roles made up about half of the respondents, while the remainder worked in settings such as general practice, residential aged care, or providing medication review services. Pharmacists can identify patients with indicators of poor life expectancy and mostly work with older Australians daily. Dispensing and non-dispensing pharmacists offer a range of services that complement each other. Organisations caring for the aged should consider the role of the pharmacist, in caring for people with palliative care needs, along with their carers. |
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spelling | pubmed-81431642021-05-25 What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? Tait, Paul Chakraborty, Amal Jones, Kelly Tieman, Jennifer Healthcare (Basel) Article As the population ages, the number of older populations globally requiring palliative care is rapidly growing, requiring services of multidisciplinary teams—including community pharmacists. The aim of this study is to describe the community pharmacists’ perceived role in providing services to community dwelling older Australians receiving palliative care. Utilising an eight-domain End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) care model, a national cross-sectional questionnaire was designed and undertaken online with Australian community pharmacists. Respondents were asked questions relating to socio-demographic characteristics, practice characteristics, and scope of services provided. Of the 62 pharmacists who responded to the questionnaire, 51 were included in the final data analysis and reporting. Pharmacists working in dispensing roles made up about half of the respondents, while the remainder worked in settings such as general practice, residential aged care, or providing medication review services. Pharmacists can identify patients with indicators of poor life expectancy and mostly work with older Australians daily. Dispensing and non-dispensing pharmacists offer a range of services that complement each other. Organisations caring for the aged should consider the role of the pharmacist, in caring for people with palliative care needs, along with their carers. MDPI 2021-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8143164/ /pubmed/33919247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050489 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Tait, Paul Chakraborty, Amal Jones, Kelly Tieman, Jennifer What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? |
title | What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? |
title_full | What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? |
title_fullStr | What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? |
title_full_unstemmed | What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? |
title_short | What Is the Community Pharmacists’ Role in Supporting Older Australians with Palliative Care Needs? |
title_sort | what is the community pharmacists’ role in supporting older australians with palliative care needs? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8143164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33919247 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9050489 |
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