Management of COVID-19 in a French Nursing Home: Experiences from a Multidisciplinary Mobile Team.

Background: Long-term residential care facilities and nursing homes are known to be particularly vulnerable to viral respiratory diseases and have expressed the need for multidisciplinary collaboration to help manage outbreaks when they occur.

Method: In April 2020, Tours University Medical Center created a multidisciplinary mobile team to help local nursing homes deal with outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The team included a geriatrician, infectious disease experts, and palliative care specialists.

Retrospective review of end-of-life care in the last month of life in older patients with multiple myeloma: what collaboration between haematologists and palliative care teams?

Objectives: Patients with haematological malignancies (HM) receive more aggressive treatments near the end-of-life (EOL) than patients with solid tumours. Palliative care (PC) needs are less widely acknowledged in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) than in other HM. The main objective of our study was to describe EOL care and PC referral in a population of older patients with MM.

Quality of palliative care in identified palliative care beds.

Background: Dedicated identified palliative care beds (IPCB) are unique to France.

Aims: This study aimed to assess their use and advantages in a medical oncology department of a private provincial hospital.

Findings: Of the last 100 patients who died in the medical oncology department, 57 had an IPCB.