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Psychosocial Support within the Context of Perinatal Palliative Care: The “SORROWFUL” Model
Against the background of a society that tends to underrate the grief experienced by parents whose infants have died prematurely, the model “SORROWFUL” is presented here with the intent to highlight the significance of the death of a newborn for the ...
Kerstin von der Hude, Lars Garten
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There has been an increase in the use of mechanical ventilation (MV) in motor neurone disease (MND) to alleviate symptoms related to hypoventilation. Little is known about its use at the end of life, and the withdrawal of MV is a challenging topic.
Eleanor Wilson +3 more
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Silent Questions: (Not) Talking about Dying in the Pearl River Delta
This Field Notes contribution describes the difficulty of confronting the topic of dying in conversations with terminally ill persons in the Pearl River Delta region in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and how the ethnographer responded to this ...
Mira Menzfeld
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Background Globally, digital transformation has been sweeping through healthcare in recent years. Reflecting this global change, Australia’s health and social care sector is also undergoing rapid digitalisation.
Priyanka Vandersman, Jennifer Tieman
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Death and Dying During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tahan Na, Humimlay
Nagwakas ang araw Lupa’t dagat, langit, pumanaw Tahan na, Humimlay Siyanawa — JF Lapeña, Tahan Na, Humimlay The continuing COVID-19 pandemic has directly or indirectly claimed the lives of countless colleagues, friends, and family.
José Florencio Lapeña, Jr
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ABSTRACT Background Cerebellar ataxia after pediatric brain tumor treatment can cause persistent gait, balance, and speech impairment, yet no established rehabilitation strategy exists. Somato‐cognitive coordination therapy (SCCT) is a virtual reality–guided intervention designed to promote sensorimotor integration through visually constrained reaching
Masanobu Takeuchi +10 more
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Background The residential aged care (RAC) sector provides care to a significant number of older people across frail and vulnerable years, all the way through to death.
Priyanka Vandersman, Jennifer Tieman
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According to the 2022 Korean Society of Lipidology and Atherosclerosis, in Korea, dyslipidemia is a common disease that occurs in 40.2% of adults aged 20 or older, and its prevalence increases with age. Although dyslipidemia has a high prevalence of 47.8%
Jin-Hui Ku, Jong-Suk Kim, Kwang-Hwan Kim
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ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier +10 more
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Anguish: The Case History of a Dying Trajectory (1970) is an exemplification of the grounded theory approach already developed by the sociologists Anselm Strauss and Barney Glaser in Awareness of Dying (1965) and Time for Dying (1968).
Anthony Stavrianakis, Laurence Tessier
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