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Preventive Strategies For Elder Abuse Within Hospice Care By Healthcare Professionals, Joshua Eason
Preventive Strategies For Elder Abuse Within Hospice Care By Healthcare Professionals, Joshua Eason
Nursing | Student Research Posters
Background: Healthcare professionals providing hospice care need to have particular specialized abilities, empathy, and trust. Unfortunately, some of these medical professionals are unable to provide their patients the care they need, so they will instead abuse and ignore them. Elder abuse must be identified and addressed in hospice care settings if older patients are to have their rights and dignity upheld and a standardized, compassionate end-of-life care program is to be provided for each patient.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness and preventative strategies for elder abuse, implemented by healthcare providers within the hospice care …