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148 Hospice at home [PDF]

open access: yesPoster presentations, 2020
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
openaire   +1 more source

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]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core   +3 more sources

Article Commentary: Grief and Palliative Care: Mutuality

open access: yesPalliative Care, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

Advance directives in home health and hospice agencies: United States, 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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
core   +2 more sources

Hospice care education needs of nursing home staff in South Korea: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting home care for the dying: an evaluation of healthcare professionals' perspectives of an individually tailored hospice at home service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +1 more source

Years of life lost: A call to achieve equitable end-of-life care among children [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Promotion Perspectives, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Geographic distribution of hospice, homecare, and nursing home facilities and access to end-of-life care among persons living with HIV/AIDS in Appalachia.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +4 more sources

Home hospice care in Nepal: a low-cost service in a low-income country through collaboration between non-profit organisations

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

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