ReviewBMC palliative care2022
A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland : how did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic?
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- Social support sources for people with palliative care needs at home: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Exploring Social Support Experiences of Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia in Hospice Care.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025Article
- Specialised Palliative Care in Day Clinic, Hospital Unit or at Home: Which for Whom and When? A Retrospective Routine Data Analysis.Health services insights · 2025Article
- Profiles of palliative day care programs in Canada and the United Kingdom: A meta-synthesis.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- The role of the municipal welfare domain in palliative care: exploring the views of coordinators of Dutch regional palliative care networks.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Midazolam Indications and Dosing in Palliative Medicine: Results from a Multinational Survey.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- Toward enhanced decentralized palliative care services in Neno District, Malawi: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Interventions for behavioral health comorbidities in the hospice setting: a scoping review.Annals of palliative medicine · 2024Article
- Explaining how and why social support groups in hospice day services benefit palliative care patients, for whom, and in what circumstances.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
- Feasibility of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Psychosocial Palliative Care: Observational Cohort Study of Hospice Day Care and Social Support Groups.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
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Abstract
introductionSocial support is described by patients and other stakeholders to be a valuable component of palliative day care. Less is known about the range of hospice services that have been used in practice that facilitate social support. An online survey aimed to gain an overview of all hospice day services that facilitated social support for adults outside of their own homes.
methodsAn online survey was distributed via email to people involved in managing hospice day services. Questions were asked on hospice characteristics, including staff and volunteer roles. Respondents were asked to identify services they felt offered social support to patients. Data collection took place between August 2017 and May 2018.
resultsResponses were received from 103 hospices in the UK and ROI (response rate 49.5%). Results provide an overview of hospice day and outpatient services that offer social support to patients. These are: multi-component interventions, activity groups, formal support groups, befriending, and informal social activities. Multi-component interventions, such as palliative day care, were the most commonly reported. Their stated aims tend to focus on clinical aspects, but many survey respondents considered these multicomponent interventions to be the 'most social' service at their hospice. The survey also identified a huge variety of activity groups, as well as formal therapeutic support groups. Informal 'social-only' activities were present, but less common. Over a third of all the services were described as 'drop in'. Most responding hospices did not routinely use patient reported outcome measures in their 'most social' services.
conclusionsThe survey documents hospice activity in facilitating social support to be diverse and evolving. At the time of data collection, many hospices offered multiple different services by which a patient might obtain social support outside of their own home and in the presence of other patients.
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