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November 01, 2019; Volume 65,Issue 11

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This month’s cover image, Songeuse, was taken by family physician and artist Dr Marie-Josée Latouche during a housecall for patient and subject Colette Songeuse. Dr Latouche almost exclusively provides home care. She photographs her elderly patients coping with loss of autonomy, showing their vulnerability and isolation, but also capturing their unique and endearing qualities, in order to help encourage residents to provide such care when they begin practice. This issue offers support for physicians providing home care, including a First Five Years article proposing a practice-based periodic health examination form for extremely elderly homebound patients (page 841), as well as research examining the feasibility and effects of implementing the Patient Dignity Question for end-of-life care in a rural hospice (page 812).

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Dre Marie-Josée Latouche, Québec (Québec), Songeuse

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L’image de la page couverture du mois, Songeuse, est une photo prise par la Dre Marie-Josée Latouche, médecin de famille et artiste, durant une visite à domicile à la patiente Colette Songeuse, sujet de l’œuvre. La Dre Latouche dispense presque exclusivement des soins à domicile. Elle photographie ses patients plus âgés, aux prises avec une perte d’autonomie, illustrant leur vulnérabilité et leur isolement, mais captant aussi leurs qualités uniques et attachantes dans le but d’encourager les résidents à prodiguer également des soins à domicile dans le cadre de leur pratique future. Le présent numéro offre des conseils aux médecins qui donnent des soins à domicile, dont un article dans Cinq premières années de pratique proposant un examen médical périodique axé sur la pratique pour les patients d’un âge très avancé confinés à la maison (page e500), de même qu’un article de recherche qui examine la faisabilité et les effets de l’intervention au moyen de la Question sur la dignitédu patient en fin de vie dans un centre de soins palliatifs en milieu rural (page 813).

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Dre Marie-Josée Latouche, Québec (Québec), Songeuse

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Canadian Family Physician: 65 (11)
Canadian Family Physician
Vol. 65, Issue 11
1 Nov 2019
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