Global Challenges for Opioid Use in Care for the Dying Person

This free webinar from the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person features insights from leading international practitioners in relation to opioid use in end of life care.

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Is having access to end-of-life anticipatory medications in the home reassuring and helpful?

Dr Ben Bowers

The anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications, including opioids, is widely accepted by health professionals to be key in facilitating effective last-days-of-life symptom control.  In this talk, Ben will give a brief summary of a new updated systematic review of the international evidence concerning anticipatory prescribing for adults in the community.  Ben will then share his recent qualitative reserach investigating patients', informal caregivers' and their clinicians' views and experiences of the prescription and use of anticipatory medications. 

Lack of access to opioids globally is a barrier to optimal palliative care