How to get your relatives to go on the last journey? Most citizens are “Mengchacha”
The Qingming Festival is approaching, and topics related to life are becoming hotter, and “hospice care” is becoming increasingly popular among Guangzhou citizens. When one day life is about to come to an end, everyone hopes to leave the world calmly and without regrets. However, a reporter from Xin Kuaibao recently visited and found that “Komiks hospice care” is still an unfamiliar word for most citizens. What exactly does it include? If this service is needed, which institutions can you ask for help from? What is the demand in the city now? These are all issues that citizens are concerned about. The reporter visited and found that ordinary citizens knew little about “hospice care”, and there were not many institutions in the city that could provide related services, and there were less than 1,000 death beds in the entire Guangzhou.
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Nine 1.5 million elderly people only have 672 death beds
Last year, Hao Yanping, a lecturer in the Department of Surgery Nursing, School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University, published an article “Survey on the Resources and Current Situation of Hospice Institutions in Guangzhou” in the monthly magazine “China Public Health”, and conducted a survey on 13 health institutions in Guangzhou that carry out hospice services in Yuexiu District, Liwan District, Komiks, Haizhu District, Tianhe District, Panyu District and Baiyun District. The data released are amazing.
The author mentioned in the article that according to data from the National Aging Commission, China entered a stage of rapid aging from 2015 to 2035, and the elderly population will increase from 212 million to 418 million, and the proportion will increase to 29%. The elderly population in Guangzhou exceeds 1.4753 million, and its growth rate is accelerating. As of the time of publication, only 13 health institutions in Guangzhou have carried out hospice care services, with a total of 672 death beds, and their service coverage needs to be expanded. In addition, relevant studies show that the matching between the number of hospice practitioners and patients in my country is extremely uneven, and the average nurse/bed ratio is only 0.25:1. This survey shows that nurses/beds are 0.3:1, which is a certain gap with Shanghai’s 0.35:1, and it is even bigger with Western developed countries.
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Why is the supply of hospice services so low? One of the important reasons is that citizens and even doctors and other professionals know very little about this. A reporter from Xin Kuaibao randomly interviewed some citizens, and almost no one could explain what hospice care is, and he didn’t know what hospice care services the hospital could provide.
Doctors from hospice care institutions introduced that the starting point of hospice care is very different from general treatment and rescue. The hospital does not have much clinical treatment for patients who hope to heal patients, but will still rescue and treat patients while respecting the wishes of patients and their families. Most medical staff mainly consider saving lives, and there are fewer people paying attention to the deep needs of patients for comfort and dignity, and they do not understand how to achieve good results. The doctor introduced that hospice care services will start from many details, such as patients who are bedridden for a long time are prone to pressure ulcers. The hospital has a standard process to deal with it, but it is not enough for dying patients. When hospice care services intervene, they will provide more detailed care for pressure ulcers to try to reduce the pain and embarrassment of the patients.
According to the survey by Hao Yanping and others, 2 out of the 13 institutions in Guangzhou provide home-style nursing and inpatient care services, while the rest are inpatient care services. The end-of-life nursing is mainly psychological nursing and rehabilitation training. Among them, 12 institutions provide psychological support and psychological counseling services, accounting for 92.3%, and other psychological nursing interventions such as cognitive therapy, behavioral correction and music therapy, accounting for 23.3% each; 11 institutions provide eating training, 9 provide changing clothes and personal hygiene training, 8 provide excretion function training, 6 provide walking training, 5 provide wheelchair training, and 4 provide respiratory function training.
In the interview with Xin Kuaibao reporter, all the ordinary citizens interviewed had little understanding of such services. This can explain that when citizens themselves or their families need hospice care services, they don’t know where to go to find relevant institutions. Correspondingly, most hospitals do not have corresponding departments to provide hospice services. The reporter recently visited the outpatient emergency department of a tertiary hospital in the city. Many doctors said bluntly that they didn’t know how to mention it.://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan provides hospice care services, and does not know where there are professional institutions in the city for referrals.
Case:
The head coach of the football team visited the little boy to realize his dream
Is hospice care meaningful when life is coming to an end? A reporter from Xin Kuaibao found that the answer was yes. It can not only relieve the pain of severe patients, but also bring them spiritual comfort. The glory of human nature often flashes in the process.
”There is a child who is about the same age as my son, and his parents have lost all their money to treat him. “When talking about a small patient, Zeng Wenjie, head nurse of the Corning Department of Shiqiao Hospital in Panyu District, looked sad. She said that the name XiaoxiaoCinema href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksThe severely ill boy once made it difficult for her to get out of her grief. At the countdown of Xiaoxiao’s life, Zeng Wenjie mobilized the whole family to prepare food for him, and took his son to chat and tell stories with Xiaoxiao, and listened to him blowing Hulusi… After learning that Xiaoxiao had a “football dream”, Zeng Wenjie and Panyu Volunteer League volunteers tried every means to invite Li Zhangzhu, who was then the head coach of Guangzhou Evergrande football team. Li Zhangzhu sent Xiaoxiao football and jerseys signed by the players of the team, and Xiaoxiao used Hulusi, who was best at, to play a song “Da Jang Geum” for Li Zhangzhu with difficulty. Two days after the visit, Xiaoxiao passed away with a smile.
”We advocate letting life enjoy the last ray of sunshine, and the patients are not waiting here. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>CinemaDead’,KomiksWe want them to ‘die with dignity’ when the end of their lives is approaching. “Zeng Wenjie said that this is the common concept of Corning doctors and nurses.
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Shiqiao Hospital has carried out hospice care services 11 years ago
In Guangzhou, most institutions that can provide hospice care services are medical institutions, and Panyu District City BabaylanBabaylan is one of them.The hospital is the first public hospital in Guangdong Province to carry out hospice care services (palm care). A total of 8 medical staff have obtained the palliative care position training certificate.
New Kuaibao reporter learned that the hospital’s palliative care work was launched in 2008 and has been 11 years since then. When it was launched in 2008, the hospital had only 29 beds. At present, the hospital has a total of 150 medical and nursing beds, including 60 palliative care beds, with an average daily usage rate of more than 95%, which is basically full. In 2017, the hospital’s palliative care work gradually extended from the original hospice services to medical care collection and healthy elderly care services. It uses day care centers, medical care centers, rehabilitation (Cinema’s elderly care) wards, long-term care wards, and palliative care wards (hospice) to jointly serve special groups such as late tumor, organ failure, chronic diseases, and elderly care mortality. Based on this, Babaylan has opened a rehabilitation ward and day care ward to provide closed-loop medical care services for the elderly.
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”It’s great that you can come, my heart is finally relieved”
Social work organizations organize volunteers to visit critically ill patients Cinema to bring comfort to them
In addition to hospitals, social organizations in Guangzhou are also providing hospice related services.
A week ago, the Hongfang Social Work Service Center of Yuexiu District received funding from the 6th Guangzhou Social Organization Public Welfare Venture Capital Project, and the project is “hospice care and tranquility care”. A reporter from Xin Kuaibao learned that the center is one of the few social worker institutions in Guangzhou that carry out hospice charity projects. In 2016, the center launched the “hospital care and tranquility care” service model, which includes organizing volunteers to regularly conduct life companionship and visits in life, so as to appease the public, community residents and families of patients with advanced cancer, and relieve the pain of patients. At the same time, the center also conducts lectures on life/death education and training on life companionship skills for volunteers.
Citizen Huang Bo was transferred to the Corning ward due to advanced lung cancer. As his physical condition declined, he was filled with fear and unwillingness. When “RedKomiks” walked into the ward, held Huang’s hand, listened to him, chatted with him, and quietly accompanied him, he finally relieved his uneasiness. “It’s great that you can come, my heart is finally relieved,” said Huang Bo Komiks.
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13 institutions in Guangzhou that provide hospice services
These 13 institutions are: Shayuan Community Health Service Center, Guangzhou Friendly Nursing Home, Guangzhou Liwan District Hualin Street Community Health Service Center, Guangzhou Yuexiu District Liurong Street Community Health Service Center, Guangzhou Tianhe District Zhuji Nursing Home, Guangzhou Tianhe District Cencun Nursing Home, Guangzhou Panyu District Shiqiao Hospital, Guangzhou Panyu District Shilou People’s Hospital, Guangzhou Yuexiu District Jianshe Street Community Health Service Center, Guangzhou Port Nursing Home, Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau Psychiatric Hospital, Guangzhou Haizhu District Longfeng Street Community Health Service Center, Guangzhou Nursing Home.