Nursing Home Owners
Supporting End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes
Knowing the person, following their wishes and providing individualised care is considered key to quality palliative and end-of-life care.
Caru focuses on enabling cultural change within nursing homes, encouraging openness to talk about and plan for end-of-life care with residents, families, and staff. It is an evidence-based programme that will build on the nursing homes’ existing capability to enhance staff confidence with planning for and reviewing care given at end-of-life.
The benefits of participating in the Caru programme include:
- Enhancing the End of Life care experience for residents, their families and your staff
- Building strong relationships and mutual beneficial ways of working between nursing homes, community services and specialist palliative care supports.
- Supporting you to create a framework for reviewing and improving palliative & end of life care provided to your residents
- Building staff skills, knowledge and confidence, giving you a highly skilled workforce with a consistent and compassion approach to end-of-life care.
- Ongoing support provided by your Regional Lead for Nursing Homes
For more information on the specific training please go to our Learning Programme section