Study: Culture plays a critical role in perception of palliative care in South Asian populations
When dealing with a life-limiting illness, palliative care can improve the quality of life for patients and families. However, for many people, the fear of end of life care prevents them from exploring it. A recent study from William Osler Health System (Osler) and McMaster University examined awareness of palliative care in the South Asian community and found that culture plays a critical role in the perception of palliative care. This perception, in turn, affects whether or not patients will be open to receiving it.
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January 7, 2021 (BRAMPTON - HAMILTON) When dealing with a life-limiting illness, palliative care can improve the quality of life for patients and families. However, for many people, the fear of end of life care prevents them from exploring it. A recent study from William Osler Health System (Osler) and McMaster University examined awareness of palliative care in the South Asian community and found that culture plays a critical role in the perception of palliative care. This perception, in turn, affects whether or not patients will be open to receiving it.
Funded by a McMaster University, Department of Family Medicine, Pilot Research Project Funding Grant, the observational study is one of the few person-centered palliative care studies focused on the South Asian community outside India. The results showed that seventy per cent of participants in the study had a lack of understanding of palliative care and forty-four per cent thought that palliative care went against t
Published Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:34AM EST Last Updated Tuesday, December 22, 2020 10:58AM EST There are now more COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units than at any other point during the pandemic as concerns continue to mount around the healthcare system’s ability to withstand the strain. The latest Critical Care Services Ontario report obtained by CP24 suggests that were 285 COVID-19 patients in intensive care as of Dec. 21, exceeding the first wave peak of 283 for the first time. Nearly 40 per cent of all COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care as of Dec. 21 were located in the Central health region, which covers a wide swath of territory that includes hospitals in Peel, Halton and York Regions. Another 64 of the COVID patients in the ICU were in Toronto hospitals, including 21 at Toronto General Hospital and 11 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
TORONTO There are now more COVID-19 patients in Ontario’s intensive care units than at any other point during the pandemic as concerns continue to mount around the health-care system’s ability to withstand the strain. The latest Critical Care Services Ontario report obtained by CP24 suggests that there were 285 COVID-19 patients in intensive care as of Dec. 21, exceeding the first wave peak of 283 for the first time. Nearly 40 per cent of all COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care as of Dec. 21 were located in the Central health region, which covers a wide swath of territory that includes hospitals in Peel, Halton and York regions. Another 64 of the COVID patients in the ICU were in Toronto hospitals, including 21 at Toronto General Hospital and 11 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.