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The PALLUP Study: Improving home-based palliative care for older people

Start date

September 2019

End date

September 2024

Aims

This study will help home care services to meet the needs of older people living with severe frailty who are in their final years of life, and their families.

This study will improve services and outcomes by:

  • Understanding the palliative care needs of older people living with severe frailty.
  • Supporting families to work with palliative care services and reduce unnecessary interventions.
  • Equipping community services to provide palliative care for older people living with severe frailty, to ensure a consistently high-quality service.  

Research phases

  • Phase 1.  Defining and agreeing the core palliative care needs.
  • Phase 2.  Establishing current practice in extending community provision of palliative care for older people living with severe frailty   
  • Phase 3.  Collecting both patient and family experiences and service response over a year
  • Phase 4. Developing key features and resources to implement learning in practice

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Research themes

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