MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Kirsty Boyd
Programme theme head (Clinical Communication)
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Primary Palliative Care Research Group
Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice
University of Edinburgh
Medical Research: What do we know already about people with ‘multimorbidity’?
Dr. Boyd: We know that an increasing number of patients have multiple life-limiting illnesses or progressively deteriorating health due to several long term conditions or general frailty. Caring for them well poses major challenges and they are often hospitalised in the last year of life. They do not fit well into illness and healthcare models that focus on single conditions. Understanding the experiences of patients and their family caregivers is vital to inform improvements in best supportive care and palliative care. We wanted to build on care models for integrated care of people with long term conditions and consider the needs of those at risk of dying with multiple conditions in more detail. (more…)
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