Journal article
Developing Navigation Competencies to Care for Older Rural Adults with Advanced Illness
Abstract
Navigators help rural older adults with advanced illness and their families connect to needed resources, information, and people to improve their quality of life. This article describes the process used to engage experts - in rural aging, rural palliative care, and navigation - as well as rural community stakeholders to develop a conceptual definition of navigation and delineate navigation competencies for the care of this population. A …
Authors
Duggleby W; Robinson CA; Kaasalainen S; Pesut B; Nekolaichuk C; MacLeod R; Keating NC; Salas AS; Hallstrom LK; Fraser KD
Journal
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 206–214
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
June 2016
DOI
10.1017/s0714980816000131
ISSN
0714-9808