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Aged care facilities provide care for older persons who are often living with life-limiting conditions. Commonly, palliative care is required by residents in aged care facilities to provide relief from symptoms and promote quality of life.

You are the Educator at Western Sydney Nursing Home (WSNH), a residential aged care facility. Part of your role as the educator at WSNH, is to ensure that staff, residents, families, and carers receive accurate information about their care. As the educator, you lead a team of staff on a project to create patient and family resources about palliative care at the facility. Your colleague has given you the information below to proofread before it is distributed to residents and their families. They confess that they had used generative AI as they had run out of time.

Using the provided 'Family Resource' you are required to identify one key point which you will further explain or clarify using specific examples from scholarly sources. Your explanation will be in relation to each of these three short answer prompts.

Family Resource

Nurses can aid families and carers of palliative patients by offering education on symptom management, ensuring emotional support, and facilitating respite care. Person-centred care acknowledges the patient's unique preferences, fostering comfort and dignity in their final moments. This approach alleviates anxiety, enhances trust, and promotes a sense of control, positively impacting the patient's quality of life. Collaboration within multi/interdisciplinary teams enhances care coordination and information sharing. This prevents fragmented care, reduces errors, and tailors interventions to the patient's evolving needs. Such teamwork optimises holistic care, providing comprehensive physical, emotional, and psychosocial support for the palliative patient.

Prompts:

Justify how person-centred care impacts the palliative residents of WSNH. (Five hundred words).