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Introduction Initially the ‘Severn Hospice at Home Day Care Service’ was created to provide specialist support and care to patients who were experiencing a crisis in their illness where additional nursing care could prevent hospital/hospice admission.
R Richardson, K Maw, D Willis
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Supporting older people with cancer and life-limiting conditions dying at home: a qualitative study of patient and family caregiver experiences of Hospice at Home care [PDF]
AimTo explore patients' and family caregivers' experiences and perceptions of Hospice at Home care.BackgroundThe public indicate a preference to be cared for and to die at home.
Baldry C.R. +13 more
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Article Commentary: Grief and Palliative Care: Mutuality
Grief and palliative care are interrelated and perhaps mutually inclusive. Conceptually and practically, grief intimately relates to palliative care, as both domains regard the phenomena of loss, suffering, and a desire for abatement of pain burden ...
Paul J. Moon
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Advance directives in home health and hospice agencies: United States, 2007 [PDF]
This report provides nationally representative data on policies, storage, and implementation of advance directives (ADs) in home health and hospice (HHH) agencies in the United States using the National Home and Hospice Care Survey.
Foster, Gregory L. +2 more
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Hospice care education needs of nursing home staff in South Korea: a cross-sectional study
Background While the importance of hospice care education in nursing homes is recognized, the volume of research on the specific educational needs of caregivers in hospice care in nursing homes is still lacking.
Mihyun Park, Hye-Ah Yeom, Sr Jinsun Yong
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Supporting home care for the dying: an evaluation of healthcare professionals' perspectives of an individually tailored hospice at home service [PDF]
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To explore health care professionals' perspective of hospice at home service that has different components, individually tailored to meet the needs of patients. BACKGROUND: Over 50% of adults diagnosed with a terminal illness and the
Baldry, C R +5 more
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Years of life lost: A call to achieve equitable end-of-life care among children [PDF]
Significant disparities continue to exist in access to inpatient pediatric hospice care among children at the end-of-life. Increasingly more children at this stage are dying in the hospital or at home on hospice which is not always an acceptable option ...
Aysha Jawed
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BackgroundAccess to healthcare services, from diagnosis through end of life (EOL), is important among persons living with Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (PLWHA).
Sadie P Hutson +2 more
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Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland [PDF]
The current literature suggests that perinatal palliative care (PPC) programs should be comprehensive, initiated early, and integrative. So far there have been very few publications on the subject of home-based PC of newborns and neonates.
Korzeniewska-Eksterowicz, Aleksandra +4 more
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Background: Nepal is a low-income country in south Asia with a population of more than 27 million people. Because of late diagnosis and poor access to care, almost 90% of approximately 60 000 people diagnosed with cancer in Nepal annually will die within
Binay K Shah, MD, Tara Shah, BSN
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