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Preferences and end of life care for residents of aged care facilities: a mixed methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Residential aged care facilities is one of the most common places to deliver of end of life care. A lack of evidence regarding preferred place for end of life care for residents of aged care facilities impacts on delivery of care and prevents ...
Moberley Sarah, Hewitt Jacqui, Attia John, Cole Janean, Bevington Joelle, Oldmeadow Christopher, Howard Zach, Hughes Rachel   +7 more
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The evolution of palliative care [PDF]

Patient Education and Counseling, 2000
An encounter with one patient in 1948 was the catalyst for the Hospice Movement. The challenge to undertake appropriate pain and symptom control together with experience in further listening to patients in the small number of homes especially planned for dying people, finally came together during the 1960s as the impetus for the first modern hospice ...
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Involvement of palliative care services strongly predicts place of death in Belgium [PDF]

, 2010
Introduction: Place of death is considered a quality indicator of end-of-life care and enabling people to die were they choose is an important aspiration of palliative care.
Bossuyt, Nathalie, Cohen, Joachim, Deliens, Luc, Houttekier, Dirk, Van den Block, Lieve   +4 more
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Pediatric palliative care [PDF]

Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2008
The WHO defines pediatric palliative care as the active total care of the child's body, mind and spirit, which also involves giving support to the family. Its purpose is to improve the quality of life of young patients and their families, and in the vast majority of cases the home is the best place to provide such care, but for cultural, affective ...
Marco Spizzichino, Manuela Trapanotto, Franca Benini, Anna Ferrante   +3 more
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Keep in Touch (KIT): feasibility of using internet-based communication and information technology in palliative care

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Confinement to an in-patient hospital ward impairs patients’ sense of social support and connectedness. Providing the means, through communication technology, for patients to maintain contact with friends and family can potentially improve ...
Qiaohong Guo, Beverley Cann, Susan McClement, Genevieve Thompson, Harvey Max Chochinov   +4 more
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A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Many patients with a solid metastatic cancer are treated aggressively during their last month of life. Using data from a large prospective cohort study of patients with an advanced cancer, we aimed to assess the number and predictors of ...
Chetna Malhotra, Filipinas Bundoc, Isha Chaudhry, Irene Teo, Semra Ozdemir, Eric Finkelstein, on behalf of COMPASS study group   +6 more
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Barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe [PDF]

, 2010
The Eurobarometer Survey of the <i>EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe</i> is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the provision of palliative care across Europe.
A. Giordano, Bercovitch M., C. Centeno, Centeno C., Centeno C., Centeno C., D. Clark, F. Guillén, J. Rocafort, K. Hegedus, L. de Lima, Lynch T., M. Filbet, M. Wright, Martin-Moreno J., O. Belle, Polgar S., Recommendation Rec, Rocafort J., Strauss AL, T. Lynch   +20 more
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Evolution and change in palliative care around the world [PDF]

, 2011
Palliative care developed in the later part of the 20th century as a social movement and medical speciality. Central to its modern development were the ideas of Dr Cicely Saunders, whose vision for improving the care of the dying encompassed the physical,
Clark, Clark, Clark, David Clark, Fiona Graham, Harding, Shaw, Veerbeek, Wright   +8 more
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Key features of palliative care service delivery to Indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States: A comprehensive review [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Indigenous peoples in developed countries have reduced life expectancies, particularly from chronic diseases. The lack of access to and take up of palliative care services of Indigenous peoples is an ongoing concern.
A Liberati, B Finke, C McMichael, CA DeCourtney, CA Decourtney, D Meier, E Nicholson, Emma V. Taylor, G Bellamy, H Castleden, H Prince, I Byock, IM Ramsden, J Daly, J Kitzes, J Oetzel, JA Kitzes, JG Oetzel, John A. Woods, K Eager, KE Hotson, KL Braun, L Kelly, L Marr, M Cottle, M Dembinsky, M Dixon-Woods, M Hampton, M Hampton, M Isaacson, N St Pierre-Hansen, NJ Brooke, O Fried, P McGrath, P McGrath, P McGrath, P McGrath, PD McGrath, PD McGrath, PM Davidson, R Fernandes, R Frey, R Frey, R Lawrenson, R McConigley, S Aoun, S Colquhoun, S Mann, S Schrader, S Shahid, S Shahid, Samar M. Aoun, Sandra C. Thompson, Shaouli Shahid, Shelley Cheetham, T Greenhalgh, T Slater, TA Carey, V Fruch, Y Bray, YY Colclough   +60 more
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What are the personal last wishes of people with a life-limiting illness? Findings from a longitudinal observational study in specialist palliative care

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Personal last wishes of people facing a life-limiting illness may change closer to death and may vary across different forms of specialist palliative care (SPC).
Anneke Ullrich, Wiebke Hollburg, Holger Schulz, Sven Goldbach, Annette Rommel, Marten Müller, Denise Kirsch, Katrin Kopplin-Foertsch, Julia Messerer, Louise König, Frank Schulz-Kindermann, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle   +12 more
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