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Patients and families may appreciate support groups and presentations that focus on mental health issues, including depression and delirium. Such programs can easily be tied to other programs on grief, loss, and bereavement. Programs can be offered periodically to patients and to loved ones and can provide information about depression and its treatment, the importance of recognizing depression at the end of life, and ways in which its treatment can improve the quality of a patient’s life.
Many public and private organizations, including the National Institute of Mental Health, publish brochures, fact sheets, and videos about depression and its treatment. Several are listed at the end of this chapter.
Many helpful books about depression and its treatment have been written for lay audiences. Hospice and hospital patient libraries may want to add a few to their collections to recommend and lend to patients and their caregivers.
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This online version of the book Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians is provided with permission of Americans for Better Care of the Dying [ www.abcd-caring.org ] and Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For further information on quality improvement in end-of-life care visit The Palliative Care Policy Center [ www.medicaring.org ]. |
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