WA22 “it’s hard to watch people die for a living”: embedding the palliative approach into the organisational culture of long term care homes using participatory action research

BACKGROUND: Long term care homes (LTC) in Canada have become a major location of death with 20% or more residents dying each year. Given the increasing age and frailty of residents, this is soon expected to increase to 40%. LTC has struggled to incorporate care of the dying into their day to day practice and culture because death is often absent from formalised policy and protocols. AIM: This workshop will share resources created during a 5 …