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Worldwide, there is an increasing older prison population. People aged 50 or over make up 15% of the Australian prison population.

 

This represents an increase of 84% in this age group between the years 2005 to 2015. The high incidence of multiple morbidity and the premature ageing within the prison setting mean that more and more people will face their end of life in custody.

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Worldwide, there is an increasing older prison population. People aged 50 or over make up 15% of the Australian prison population. This represents an increase of 84% in this age group between the years 2005 to 2015. The high incidence of multiple morbidity and the premature ageing within the prison setting mean that more and more people will face their end of life in custody.

 

Prisons are designed and built with a younger, fit population in mind. The challenge of providing end of life care to those people facing end of life is very significant and escalating.

 

We have adopted a mixed methods approach to understanding the barriers to best care and also exploring opportunities to improve care for people facing end of life while incarcerated. Working with our clinical partners, the outcomes of this research is now being formulated into interventions and approaches that are being translated into care.

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OUR RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 

Le Gautier, R., Panozzo, S., Bryan, T., Lethborg, C., & Philip, J. (2022). A thematic analysis of hospital medical records of patients with advanced illness experiencing incarceration in the last 3 months of life. PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, 8 pages. doi:10.1177/02692163221124033

 

Panozzo, S., Bryan, T., Marco, D., Collins, A., Lethborg, C., & Philip, J. (2021). End of life in hospitalised prisoners: a group comparison of palliative medicine and hospital use. BMJ SUPPORTIVE & PALLIATIVE CARE, 4 pages. doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002703

 

Panozzo, S., Bryan, T., Collins, A., Marco, D., Lethborg, C., & Philip, J. A. (2020). Complexities and Constraints in End-of-Life Care for Hospitalized Prisoner Patients. JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT, 60(5), 984-+. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.05.024

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