Fostering compassionate care in long-term care settings

Providing compassionate care is essential to the delivery of high quality health care and services, and supports positive health outcomes. Providing compassionate care is an important goal for health care organizations, and
to evaluate continuous quality improvement activities we require questionnaires to measure compassionate care. In the long-term care environment, some residents may experience severe cognitive impairment, preventing them from responding to questionnaires about the care they receive. In such situations, relying on care-partners to gather information about the care received is necessary. We identified the need for a questionnaire to measure compassionate care from the perspective of the care-partners. The main aim of this study is to develop such a questionnaire. This questionnaire will be invaluable to engage in future compassion research and to measure the impact of interventions to improve compassionate care.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Bédard

Student:

Partner:

St.Joseph’s Care Group

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Lakehead University

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