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“The great escape”: how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage

BMC Palliative Care
Background This case report from Scotland, UK illustrates how unresolved traumatic experiences across the life course can affect a patient’s engagement with palliative care and offers insights into the flexibility and adaptations necessary for taking a ...
Sam Quinn, Libby Ferguson, Derek Read, Naomi Richards   +3 more
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When is hastened death considered suicide? A systematically conducted literature review about palliative care professionals’ experiences where assisted dying is legal

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background Laws allowing assisted suicide and euthanasia have been implemented in many locations around the world but some individuals suffering with terminal illness receiving palliative care services are hastening death or die by suicide without ...
Sheri Mila Gerson, Amanda Bingley, Nancy Preston, Anne Grinyer   +3 more
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Enhancing & Mobilizing the POtential for Wellness & Emotional Resilience (EMPOWER) among Surrogate Decision-Makers of ICU Patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2019
Background Critical illness increases the risk for poor mental health outcomes among both patients and their informal caregivers, especially their surrogate decision-makers.
Holly G. Prigerson, Martin Viola, Chris R. Brewin, Christopher Cox, Daniel Ouyang, Madeline Rogers, Cynthia X. Pan, Shayna Rabin, Jiehui Xu, Susan Vaughan, Janna S. Gordon-Elliot, David Berlin, Lindsay Lief, Wendy G. Lichtenthal   +13 more
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The End of Life, The Ends of Life: An Anthropological View [PDF]

Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, 2012
All known human societies have a worldview that deserves to be called religion; all religions must explain death. Anthropologists study the diversity of religious systems, present and past, in order to understand what is common to humanity. Rather than starting from the view of a particular revelation or set of doctrines, the anthropologist tries to ...
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Ghent University Hospital’s protocol regarding the procedure concerning euthanasia and psychological suffering

BMC Medical Ethics, 2019
Background Notwithstanding fears of overly permissive approaches and related pleas to refuse euthanasia for psychological suffering, some Belgian hospitals have declared that such requests could be admissible.
M. Verhofstadt, K. Audenaert, K. Van Assche, S. Sterckx, K. Chambaere   +4 more
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How to achieve the desired outcomes of advance care planning in nursing homes: a theory of change

BMC Geriatrics, 2018
Background Advance care planning (ACP) has been identified as particularly relevant for nursing home residents, but it remains unclear how or under what circumstances ACP works and can best be implemented in such settings.
J. Gilissen, L. Pivodic, C. Gastmans, R. Vander Stichele, L. Deliens, E. Breuer, L. Van den Block   +6 more
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Correction: Palliative care symptoms, concerns and well-being of older people with frailty and complex care needs upon hospital discharge: a cross-sectional study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Kim de Nooijer, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Peter Pype, Lieve Van den Block, Lara Pivodic   +4 more
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Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Care homes are a common place of death for older adults, especially those with complex health needs or dementia. Representative, internationally comparable data on care home facilities and their residents is needed to monitor health and ...
Danni Collingridge Moore, Sheila Payne, Lieve Van den Block, Maud ten Koppel, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Katherine Froggatt, PACE (Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing homes in Europe) Consortium   +6 more
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The central role of housing key workers in supporting healthcare interactions for people experiencing homelessness and implications for palliative care: a qualitative study

BMC Palliative Care
Background People experiencing homelessness access specialist palliative care late in their illness trajectory, if at all. There is also little evidence they receive generalist palliative care or are given opportunities to engage in Advance Care Planning.
Merryn Gott, Lisa Williams, Janine Wiles, Stella Black, Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Jackie Robinson, Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group   +6 more
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End-of-life Decisions

Medicine, 2000
Abstract Few areas of medical ethics raise such strong and diverse views as issues concerned with the end of life. National debates flare over concerns such as euthanasia and advance directives (living wills). Within the medical profession, there is continuing questioning of the right policies for ‘do-not-resuscitate' orders, and concern over the ...
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