University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
J Appl Gerontol. 2021 Apr;40(4):355-364. doi: 10.1177/0733464820902303. Epub 2020 Feb 2.
With an increasing aging population worldwide, there is a growing need for both palliative care and geriatric medicine. It is presumed in medical literature that both specialties share similar goals about patient care and could collaborate. To inform future service development, the objective of this review was to identify what is currently empirically known about overlapping working practices. This article provides a scoping literature review on the relationship between geriatric medicine and palliative care within the United Kingdom. The review encompassed literature written between 1997 and 2019 accessed via Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar. Three themes were identified: (a) unclear boundaries between specialties, (b) communication within and between specialisms, and (c) ambiguity of how older people fit in the current health care system. We suggest that more empirical research is conducted about the overlap between palliative care and geriatric medicine to understand how interprofessional working and patient care can be improved.
随着全球人口老龄化的加剧,人们对姑息治疗和老年医学的需求日益增长。医学文献中推测,这两个专业在患者护理方面有相似的目标,可以合作。为了为未来的服务发展提供信息,本综述的目的是确定目前关于重叠工作实践的经验知识。本文对英国老年医学和姑息治疗之间的关系进行了范围界定的文献综述。该综述涵盖了 1997 年至 2019 年间通过 Scopus、Web of Science、PubMed 和 Google Scholar 获取的文献,确定了三个主题:(a)专业之间的界限不明确,(b)专业内部和专业之间的沟通,(c)老年人在当前医疗保健系统中的定位不明确。我们建议对姑息治疗和老年医学之间的重叠进行更多的实证研究,以了解如何改善跨专业的工作和患者护理。