Hospice is a treatment approach

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Hospice Care
While the term "hospice" may cause the notion of giving up life, it is a mission to provide
a man a mental, physical and spiritual relief in the best possible way of life. Yet studies have
shown that those people who have selected hospice have been almost a month longer than those
who have chosen no hospice. Hospice is a treatment approach that is interdisciplinary. It is
holistic, comprehensive, person-centred and personalized to individual needs (Oechsle, 2019). A
family member usually serves as the primary caregiver and allows the loved one to assess, if
necessary (Ateş et al., 2018). The caregiver is active in the fight against illness of a loved one,
and later in the hospice. What is important for the caregiver of the family is to find the best
therapies to keep the optimistic hope alive. Thus, it is fundamentally crucial to include family
caregivers in the care plan of a hospice patient in order to get a quality outcome. People have
always been relying on families as a group to help their older people emotionally and assist them
with their household and personal care. With today's social programs and health systems,
professionals look forward for family carers with little or no experience to managing daunting
processes and facilities for the severely ill care patients at home. Also, many family carers are
concerned about a life-threatening mistake (Chi et al., 2018). Therefore, in the case study
provided, the nurse must involve the family caregivers of the terminally ill patient and
understand their concerns and feelings in order to enable the delivery of an enhanced and quality
palliative care.
Research problem
Although, there is a rising awareness about the involvement of family caregivers in the
hospice care plan of a dying patient, their involvement is often withdrawn which not only hinders

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the delivery of an enhanced care but also impede the family members from assessing their basic
right and willingness of assisting their loved ones during the end of life. Also, Family care is
important for patients with life-limiting conditions in the community, but there is limited
information regarding possible palliative home care strategies (Ozaki et al., 2017). Thus, this
paper will focus on two aspects of the problem area:
1. To explore the effectiveness of involving and understanding family caregivers in the
hospice care to provide quality care.
2. To discover Evidence Based strategies for facilitating home based hospice care for
seriously ill patients.
PICO question
PICO is a well-known evidence based framework for formulating and answering a health
related research question. PICO framework is also used to develop search strategies in research
papers like systematic reviews. It has the following components:
 P – Patient, Problem or Population
 I – Intervention
 C – Comparison, control or comparator
 O – Outcome(s)
Therefore, for this research area, the research question using PICO framework can be developed
as follows:
“How much effective is the role of family carers in the management of hospice patients with
evidence-based treatment strategies to provide a quality care?”