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End of life care in a Central-Asian state: from public indifference to accepting
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019 According to official records, annually 5 thousand people in Kyrgyzstan are diagnosed with cancer. Due to late diagnostics, half of them die during the first year of treatment, already in terminal stage of the disease.
Aidai Erikova
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Grieving the death of someone close
, 2008 Information leaflet on coping with the death of someone close.
Irish Hospice Foundation
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VSED Should Not Be a Pathway to MAiD (Though Both Are Ethically Permissible)
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent changes in aid in dying laws have led some to argue for a pathway from Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). Proponents point to the Sontag case as demonstrating the efficacy of the practice. This article first provides an overview of the development of the practice of VSED and MAiD and provides
D. B. Davison
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Palliative Medicine in PracticeBACKGROUND: Place of death (PoD) is a key indicator of end-of-life (EOL) care quality, yet national PoD patterns among renal cell carcinoma (RCC) decedents remain poorly characterized.
Cher Ying Foo +2 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, children and youth (‘young people’) have been increasingly conceptualised as moral agents with rights and capacities to be meaningfully engaged in decisions affecting them. While evidence suggests that social spaces are opening to prioritise listening to these voices, gaps still exist.
Sydney Campbell +5 more
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Irish Hospice Foundation - annual report 2013 [PDF]
, 2014 Annual report of the activities of the Irish Hospice Foundation ...
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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Children with cerebral palsy who experienced clinically significant sleep disturbances, their parents, and their siblings, were interviewed to understand the impact of sleep disturbance on the whole family. Six themes were identified, demonstrating the need for tailored, multidisciplinary, holistic sleep assessment and intervention, and family support.
Mary‐Elaine McCavert +3 more
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Gerodontology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Implementation of oral health assessment tools in residential care for older adults remains challenging. We aimed to establish the content validity and practice relevance of the Mouth‐related Risk Assessment for Professional Nursing (Mu‐RAP), a nursing‐applied instrument designed to identify oral health risks in care‐dependent ...
Anna‐Lena Hillebrecht +4 more
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Trajectories of Care: Tracing the Social Genesis of Men's Participation in Low Paid Care Work
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on a study involving 41 men employed as support workers in the Australia Health Care and Social Assistance (HCSA) sector, in this article we investigate where in their lives and how men turn to caring roles. Documenting continuities of men's caring practices in their work lives and private lives, we present a series of men's care ...
Riikka Prattes +2 more
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