Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Palliative Care, Pain Management
21 Mar 2018
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The process of dying has become medicalized, while it hardly takes place at home. Second trajectory usually starts healthy, develops an illness, and continues to decline. Third trajectory involves an advanced illness with a beginning low health status and have a cycle of dropping and going back up but they never get to the same level that they"ve started at. Often going in and out of hospitals. Helps to determine the health of a population. Takes into account the fact that older adults are more likely to die. Will remove the effect of differences in age b/w populations. Figure 13. 3 age-standardized mortality rates for the 10 leading causes of death, Mortality rates have declined especially for the top 3 causes of death. More professional/managerial jobs (less likely to have accidental death: instructional directive. Whether or not they want palliative care. Poorly coordinated care across health care and home settings. Lack of advance planning around end of life care decisions.
