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National Clinical Programme for Palliative Care Model of Care [PDF]

There is scarcely a conversation about healthcare in Ireland that does not reference the challenges of ageing demographics, constrained resources and constant change.
Reaper-Reynolds, Sheilagh, Myers, Kellie, Creedon, Brian, Marsden, Mary, Ryan, Karen, National Clinical Programme for Palliative Care   +5 more
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Exploring complexity in community palliative care: a practitioner based approach to research and development [PDF]

This thesis explores the complex discipline of community palliative care. Palliative patients suffer from a range of conditions, have complex, evolving clinical problems and receive care from a wide variety of health and social care professionals ...
Munday, Dan
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Sarcopenia interventions in long‐term care facilities targeting sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity: A systematic review

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Background Sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity are independent risk factors for sarcopenia for long‐term care facility residents. Understanding the components, mechanisms and context of interventions that target change in these risk factors can ...
Yihan Mo, Linghui Chen, Yuxin Zhou, Anna Bone, Matthew Maddocks, Catherine J. Evans   +5 more
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“I live my own life”: relationship between will to live and wish to die in nursing home residents and their opinions about actions to promote their will to live

BMC Palliative Care
Background The will to live (WTL) is a crucial marker of nursing home residents’ subjective psychological state. Previous studies have indicated that nursing home residents express a relatively strong WTL, and the link with their wish to die (WTD) is ...
Samira Ruedin, Laura Jones, Eve Rubli Truchard, Gian D. Borasio, Ralf J. Jox, Marc-Antoine Bornet, Mathieu Bernard   +6 more
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Palliative care competence framework 2014 [PDF]

, 2014
The Health Service Executive (HSE) Palliative Care Programme Briefing Document (2012) identified the development of a Palliative Care Competence Framework as a key objective for the coming year.
Ryan, K, McEvoy D, Lynch M, O’Donoghue L, Connolly, M, O’Hanlon M, Wynne M, Charnley, K, Hayden, C, Reaper-Reynolds S, Rowe D, Ainscough, A, Larkin, P, Crinion, J, McQuillan R, Keegan, O, Regan J   +16 more
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Clinical hypnosis in pain therapy and palliative care : a handbook of techniques for improving the patient's physical and psychological well-being

, 2014
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Consciousness in clinical hypnosis and mindfulness -- Pain and suffering : neurophysiological and behavioral assessment -- The relationship between clinical hypnosis and mindfulness : a ...
Brugnoli, Maria Paola
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The inclusion of LGBTQ + people within UK health policy: a critical discourse analysis

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Health policymakers can leverage change to improve equity in access to care, patient experiences and clinical outcomes. Despite legal progress to reduce health inequalities, social and systemic injustices persist and lesbian, gay, bisexual ...
Debbie Braybrook, William E. Rosa, Charlotte Norman, Richard Harding, Katherine Bristowe   +4 more
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Evaluation of the development needs of palliative care programme managers in the context of providing quality palliative care to increasing numbers of patients in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa [PDF]

, 2013
Includes bibliographical references.This study intended to identify the professional development needs of palliative care programme managers in hospices in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa.
McGarvie, Susan
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Palliative Care: A Novel Solution to the Healthcare Crisis. Syracuse Seminar Series on Aging. [PDF]

Palliative care is specialized healthcare for anyone who is diagnosed with a serious and life-threatening illness, starting when they get the diagnosis, regardless of the prognosis.
R. Sean Morrison
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The case for hospital-based palliative care

, 2005
18 pagesDescribes how hospitals are delivering improved palliative ...
Center to Advance Palliative Care
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