Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

This episode features Danni Collingridge Moore (International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK). The provision and quality of palliative care delivered in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) varies and does not always meet the needs of the residents. Interventions to improve palliative care have been shown to lead to improvements in the quality of care received by long-term care facilities residents. The implementation of such interventions and the factors that facilitate their uptake within an long-term care facilities are not well understood. This paper provides a scoping review of implementation strategies used by palliative care interventions in long-term care facilities. This review has identified four organizational strategies for the implementation of palliative care interventions: facilitation, education/training, internal engagement and external engagement. Three developmental stages comprise the implementation process: conditions to introduce the intervention, embed