Challenges for palliative care day services: a focus group study

BMC Palliat Care. 2021 Jan 12;20(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s12904-020-00699-7.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Palliative care day services provide a safe environment for people with palliative care needs, enabling them to access a range of services while acting as a respite services for family caregivers. Viewed as marginal services, they are often under resourced and under researched. The aim of this study was to understand how palliative day care services contribute to client care from the perspective of management and hospice multidisciplinary teams.METHODS: A descriptive qualitative study, using six focus groups conducted with staff at three United Kingdom hospices in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Thirty-five…
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