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Palliative Care 2016
September 29-30, 2016
Volume 6 Issue 5(Suppl) J Palliat Care Med
ISSN: 2165-7386 JPCM, an open access journal
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September 29-30, 2016 Toronto, Canada
2nd Global Congress onHospice & Palliative Care
J Palliat Care Med 2016, 6:5(Suppl)
EFFECTSOFGIVINGANDRECEIVEINGADEMENTIADIAGNOSES:AN INTEGRATIVEREVIEW
Milinda Curtina and Gerard A Tobina
aMCPHS University, USA
One in 20 people over 65 and one in 5 people over the age of 80 are diagnosed with dementia. Presently, an estimated 24.3
million patients are diagnosed with dementia around the world. The CDC predicts that the population of adults, age 65 years
and older will increase to 71 million by 2030. The purpose of this integrative interview is to review the impacts on the giver and
the receiver of a diagnosis of dementia. There is little data exploring this phenomena from the perspective of giver and receiver.
The intergrative review syntheized and analyzed 10 research studies that met the inclusion criteria. Three key themes emerged
from the data: Barriers to Diagnosis; Tactice used in Disclosure & Effects of Diagnosis.
PSYCHOGENIC DISORDERS CAUSED BY DEATH OF PATIENTS IN SHARED ROOMS IN
TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
Ahmed Salah Alia
aKing Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam, Saudi Arabia
During the year 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, more than 20 mortality events has been reported in the palliative
medicine department in King Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam in shared rooms, with the attendance of the other
patients and in some occasions their relatives or companions, most of the patients who had this bad experience are palliative
or oncology patients with poor prognosis as well, unfortunately this hard situation affected them negatively in a way that there
was clear deterioration in their mental health and also physical health.
In most of the cases the need of psychological reassessment by the psychologist and psychiatric management was mandatory,
also the need for escalation of pain medications, anxiolytics and hypnotics are indicated.
Other patients left the hospital against medical advice in spite of their bad general condition and need for hospitalization.
Due to hospital bed crises, the palliative patients could not be accommodated in single bed rooms in most of the times,
we, as palliative physicians with the assistance of the case manager, can only select the actively dying cases with the signs
of approaching death to be in our limited single rooms, but it does not work in most of the times and the unexpected rapid
deterioration and death is always there.
The exaggerated or abnormal grief reactions of some familymembers added to the bad experiences the patients and consequently
got to their psychological sufferings.