The American population is aging every year. The elderly community is also suffering the more life-threatening complications of physical failures. Offering the option of a death with dignity to cancer patients is a standard of care, but few facilities offer comfort care or end-of-life therapies to patients in intensive care units. Many older patients have often reached the end of their organs’ abilities and frequently endure painful and costly life-saving procedures with limited promise of changing the prognosis. Several studies have shown the growing need for offering comfort-based end-of-life therapies throughout intensive care units. Introducing palliative care in such areas is a proposed organizational change project for a local facility. The discussion includes support and rationale for the proposal in addition to determining steps and resources to implement, monitor, and evaluate the proposed change. The change theory used and plans to measure the outcomes are included. Providing the opportunity for a comfortable and dignified ending is an important option for the growing elderly population throughout the country.
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