Guest commentary: Residential aged care: The de facto hospice for New Zealand's older people

摘要

Providing palliative care for people living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) has become a key focus for many developing countries including Australia [1], The paper by Connolly et al. [2] raises the question of whether RACFs are operating as de facto hospices for older people in New Zealand. Their two main messages are that: RACF mortality is high; and training and resources in this sector should reflect this.