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Advancing Geriatric Hospice Care in China: An Interpretation and Critical Analysis of the New National Standard WS/T 844-2024. [PDF]

Aging Med (Milton)
The Setting Standards for Elderly Hospice Care Wards are crucial for meeting urgent elderly patient needs, enhancing hospice care quality, and advancing China's humanized elderly health system. This Standard specifies the configuration requirements for geriatric hospice care wards in terms of ward configuration, staffing models, age‐appropriate ...
Wu Y, Li C, Liu S, Chen H, Chen Y, Chen X, Wang Y, Qin Y, Yi Z, Zhang P, Jiang B, Wang J, Lai B.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Equity of access to adult hospice inpatient care within north-west England. [PDF]

, 2004
There is a growing debate about the question of equity of access to hospice and palliative care services. Even countries with relatively well developed palliative care systems are considered to have problems of access and inequity of provision.
D Clark, D J Wood, A C Gatrell, Gatrell, Anthony C., Wood, D. J., Clark, D.   +5 more
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Development of the Home-based Hospice Care System in Japan: Experience and Significance to China [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2022
In the 21st century, Japan has carried out hospice care services, and developed a sound home-based hospice care system to address the social issues of "fewer children, more older people".
Lanqiu LIU, Yue ZHAO
doaj   +1 more source

Who needs and continues to need paediatric palliative care? An evaluation of utility and feasibility of the Paediatric Palliative Screening scale (PaPaS)

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background While the populations of children who can benefit from paediatric palliative care (PPC) have been broadly defined, identifying individual patients to receive PPC has been problematic in practice.
Poh Heng Chong, Janice Soo, Zhi Zheng Yeo, Raymond Qishun Ang, Celene Ting   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Exploration of the Challenges for Oncology Nurses in Providing Hospice Care in Mainland China: A Qualitative Study

Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2021
Objective: Although there has been an increasing emphasis on assisting nurses with providing quality hospice care to patients and family members, few studies have explored the challenges that oncology nurses face when delivering hospice care in the ...
Ruishuang Zheng, Qiaohong Guo, Zhiqian Chen, Lili Ma, Susan McClement   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospice care utilisation among elderly patients who died with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

JHEP Reports, 2021
Background & Aims: The benefits of hospice care in Medicare recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have not been fully evaluated, which we aimed to study. Methods: We used nationally representative samples of the Medicare beneficiaries in the
Victor de Avila, James M. Paik, Leyla de Avila, Linda Henry, Denise Mohess, Alva Roche-Green, Zobair M. Younossi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of an eHealth information resource for family carers supporting a person receiving palliative care on the island of Ireland

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background Many people receiving palliative care wish to die at home. Often, support from family or friends is key to ensuring that this wish is fulfilled. However, carers report feeling underprepared to undertake this role.
David Scott, Peter Hudson, Karen Charnley, Cathy Payne, Gareth Westcott   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accounting for hospices: Palliative care at risk [PDF]

, 2010
This paper is based on a presentation given at the British Accounting and Finance Association 46th Annual Conference in 30 March to 1 April 2010 at Cardiff City HallThis article is concerned with how the Government’s end of life care strategy seeks to ...
Haslam, C, Theodosopoulos, G
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"My Preference would be to be at Home": Patients' Experiences of their Hospice at Home Care [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A specialist 'Hospice at Home' (HaH) service commenced in 2006 in Mid West Ireland whereby participants received palliative care from a specialist team in their own home.
Armstrong, Claire, Armstrong, C, Taylor, Ann, McKay, EA, Taylor, A, McKay, Elizabeth   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Investigation of the awareness of and demand for hospice care and attitudes towards life-sustaining treatment at the end of life among community residents in Hangzhou

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background To understand the status of residents’ awareness of and demand for hospice care services in Hangzhou and to provide a reference for promoting the formulation of hospice care-related policies in China.
Yanhong Xie, Ying Xu, Shulan Yang, Jing Yan, Xiao Qing Jin, Caixia Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source