{"id":1851902,"date":"2018-08-29T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=1851902"},"modified":"2018-08-29T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:00:09","slug":"palliative-care-communication-1851902-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/palliative-care-communication-1851902-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregivers: 7 ways for doctors to better discuss death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caregivers would like more information about palliative care and a willingness from health professionals to discuss what to expect as illness progresses, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers interviewed patients and 25 caregivers ages 21 to 78 on their experiences in the health care system. Their findings show the caregivers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Felt health professionals sometimes &#8220;spared&#8221; them the details of what to expect;<\/li>\n<li>Prefer doctors to use direct language, not euphemisms, to communicate about death and dying;<\/li>\n<li>Want communication on palliative care to be more freely available;<\/li>\n<li>Would like health professionals to tell them if they know their loved one&#8217;s death is near;<\/li>\n<li>Had mistakenly thought their loved ones had more time and wished health professionals had told them this was not the case;<\/li>\n<li>Would like health professionals to have conversations about death with both the patient and carer present, not leaving it for the carer to break the news that death is near;<\/li>\n<li>Want ready access to written information, supplemented by conversations staged over time, about palliative care and what to expect as death nears.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this work will encourage us to have these conversations with each other, and, as health professionals, with our patients,&#8221; says team leader and palliative care specialist Jennifer Philip, who works in the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research and St Vincent&#8217;s Hospital. &#8220;These are not easy conversations. They need to be handled with care and sensitivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philip says language around end-of-life care was especially important. 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