Kelly A O'Malley, Lola Baird, Anica Pless Kaiser, Hannah M Bashian, Anna G Etchin, Zachary S Sager, Hannah Heintz, Lynn Korsun, Katherine Kemp, Jennifer Moye
Within the United States, approximately 330 000 military veterans die annually, but only 5% of deaths occur in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities. To help provide end-of-life care for veterans, the VHA built community partnerships with community hospice and palliative care (HPC) organizations. Veterans experience unique psychosocial factors making it vital to ensure HPC organizations have access to veteran-specific knowledge and resources to reduce suffering. To better understand the strengths and limitations of these partnerships, community HPC staff (N = 483) responded to quantitative and qualitative survey questions developed using an access to care theory for veterans...
February 1, 2024: Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing: JHPN