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A Question of Mercy

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2015
The right-to-die debate was cast into the spotlight on November 1, 2014, when Brittany Maynard, a beautiful young California woman, took her own life by a doctor- prescribed lethal dose.
Mahala Yates Stripling
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Irish Hospice Foundation Perspectives Series: Number 1

open access: yes, 2013
First report of the Irish Hospice Foundation's perspectives series examines palliative care from an all encompassing perspective which includes primary, secondary and tertiary care; patients of all ages and diagnoses; and all care settings.
Irish Hospice Foundation
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Symptom improvement in a South Asian patient with Parkinson’s disease treated with immediate- and extended-release carbidopa–levodopa: a case report

open access: yesJournal of Medical Case Reports
Background Little is reported in literature about Parkinson’s disease and treatment responses among South Asians. Case presentation Under the supervision of a movement disorders neurologist, an 85-year-old South Asian American man in hospice care was ...
Gail Reiner, Michael Skipworth
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Extending the concept of total pain to cancer survivorship

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
More people are surviving cancer than ever before. While there is a growing body of research on quality of life in cancer survivorship, we still do not have a good understanding of the lived complexities that many people experience after successful ...
Marian Krawczyk   +2 more
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Submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children – public hearing on end-of-life care

open access: yes, 2013
Irish Hospice Foundation submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children hearing on End-of-Life ...
Irish Hospice Foundation, Foley, Sharon
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The Twin Cities Hospice Movement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This historical study analyzed information about the development of hospice from ancient times to the modern hospice movement. In this study special attention is given to the modern hospice movement, which began in Britain in 1967, and began in the ...
Larson, David A
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The dual structure of ‘total pain’: multidimensionality and holism in the foundational concept of palliative care

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
The concept of ‘total pain’, introduced by Cicely Saunders, is often treated as a historical milestone of the hospice movement rather than as a live theoretical resource.
David Fajardo-Chica, David Fajardo-Chica
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Impact of a hospice rapid response service on preferred place of death, and costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Many people with a terminal illness would prefer to die at home. A new palliative rapid response service (RRS) provided by a large hospice provider in South East England was evaluated (2010) to provide evidence of impact on achieving ...
Holdsworth, LM   +13 more
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Hospice movement part I

open access: yes, 2013
This show topic is the development and organization of the Hospice ...
George Mason University. Office of Public Relations Services.
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Literature review of communication for the Irish Hospice Foundation's Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme

open access: yes, 2008
Literature review on communication in a hospital and end-of-life care settingIrish Hospice ...
Cohen Fineberg, Iris, Miller, Paul
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