Module 2: Direct Comprehensive Primary Care in the LTC Setting
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Key Points
Key Takeaways
- Key components of person-centered care, trauma-informed care while fostering equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI) and practicing cultural humility were explored
- Providing comprehensive primary care in the LTC setting requires a nuanced understanding of diverse populations
- Critical thinking in healthcare necessitates problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making based on evidence-informed sources
- To recognize acute and episodic illness, it is important to look for changes in function and compare to baseline status
- Many common acute and episodic conditions can be supported in the LTC setting and unnecessary ED transfers and hospital admissions avoided
- Chronic disease management provided in the LTC setting supports ongoing care of residents supporting health maintenance
- A palliative philosophy of care in LTC was reviewed with the goal focused on dignity, quality of life, and symptom management in alignment with residents goals, values and wishes.
- Prescribing and deprescribing must follow a strategic, evidence-based approach that involves comprehensive medication review, assessing risk vs. benefit, shared-decision making and implementing a monitoring plan