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Columbia Social Work Review, 2019 With the elderly population growing, there is a great need to improve the quality of end-of-life care. Traditionally, the healthcare industry has focused on the pathology-oriented medical model when assisting terminally ill patients.
Samantha Chipetz
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The hospice movement: An oncologist's viewpoint [PDF]
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 1984 In this broad survey, we have touched on the recent creation of special facilities for patients with advanced cancer and their relevance to the overall program of cancer control. Also discussed were a number of ethical dilemmas arising from our efforts to provide improved care for the social and emotional problems afflicting our patients.
Neil Macdonald, N Macdonald
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Revue medicale de la Suisse romande, 1997 The Hospice Movement had its beginning in the U.K. some three decades ago and has now spread to over 70 countries throughout the world. It is rooted in the Christian ethos of profound respect of the human person and of human life threatened by inexorable and progressive disease.
Muscat, Joseph A.
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Hospices in the infrastructure of the cities of the RF
Проект Байкал, 2021 The author analyzes the current state of hospices and palliative centers in the Russian Federation, as well as the problems and opportunities they face.
Асмик Клочко
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BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background The modern hospice movement is often recognised as a social movement. However, such understanding is primarily based on historic reflection and this approach has lacked theoretical exploration.
Kuai In Tam +2 more
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Hospice from the Point of View of Synergistic Anthropology: Patients, their Relatives, Workers
Психологічне консультування i психотерапія, 2023 The article, which is based on a report at the 4th national congress on palliative and hospice care with international participation: “War and us. Palliative care in Ukraine: challenges, risks and prospects,” analyzes the conceptual optics of synergistic
Oleksandr Bondarenko, Alla Guretska
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The hospice movement: History and current worldwide situation [PDF]
Archive of Oncology, 2002 The suffering of terminally ill cancer patients underlines the need for good and well organized palliative care. WHO defines the palliative care as the active total care of patients and their families when the patient's disease is no longer responsive to
Miličević Nataša
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Palliative Care in Brazil: A Challenge to the Health-Care System
Palliative Care, 2008 The global expansion of the modern hospice movement has been fast and impressive, and in developing countries this phenomenon has also been registered, despite the structural and operational difficulties of their health systems. This article will address
Ciro Augusto Floriani
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Adopting a palliative care mindset is an unmet need in Parkinson’s disease
Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2023 Introduction: Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects multiple facets of patients’ lives, many of which may not be recognized or addressed by their healthcare team.
Avery Kundrick +7 more
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The Universality of Palliative Care Philosophy
Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética, 2021 The modern hospice movement, which is the origin of what is now known as palliative care, derived strong inspiration from Christianity. Given this original Christian inspiration, the global spread of palliative care even to countries where Christianity ...
Joris Gielen
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