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The Controversy over the Terminology of Hospice Care and Palliative Care

open access: yesYixue yu zhexue
Since 2017, the health authorities in China have revised the term "palliative care" to "hospice care". However, studies show that the benefits received by service recipients under the hospice care framework are limited, and it fails to effectively break ...
Yunling WANG
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Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund General Information [2014]

open access: yes, 2014
"As of July 1, 2014." "The above information is updated based on enactment of 2014 House Bill 2516. Fund or HCSF means the Health Care Stabilization Fund. Fund law means the Health Care Provider Insurance Availability Act (K.S.A.
Kansas. Health Care Stabilization Fund.
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Online Supports for Family Carers: Options & Experiences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
One of the key developments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is the development of the internet as an everyday tool used by the majority of citizens.
Care Alliance Ireland
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Intention of healthcare providers to use video-communication in terminal care: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Palliat Care, 2022
Evering RMH   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Disability and family carer policy - challenges and responses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A working definition of ‘disability’ is crucial to any research, policy development or service provision in the field. There are many definitions of disability (Iezzoni & Freedman, 2008), some directly contradicting others. These differences originate
Care Alliance Ireland
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‘I am afraid the news is not good’ – Breaking bad news in the time of COVID: Experiences from a field hospital

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Background: The COVID-19 Pandemic had profound effects on healthcare systems around the world. In South Africa, field hospitals, such as the Mitchell’s Plain Field Hospital, managed many COVID patients and deaths, largely without family presence ...
Charmaine Cunningham   +4 more
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Pediatric Palliative Care for Children with Progressive Non-Malignant Diseases

open access: yesChildren, 2018
A substantial number of children cared for by pediatric palliative care physicians have progressive non-malignant conditions. Some elements of their care overlap with care for children with cancer while other elements, especially prognosis and trajectory,
Harold Siden
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The provision of informal care in terminal illness: An analysis of carers? needs using a discrete choice experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
There is an increasing expectation that families will provide care at home for those with chronic, acute and terminal illness. There is a range of services available to support the home care of these patients.
Patricia Kenny   +2 more
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Discussion Paper 4 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
It is widely understood that Family Carers are more likely to experience poor health (O’Sullivan, 2008), economic hardship (OECD, 2011), anxiety, stress, loneliness and isolation than the general population.
Care Alliance Ireland
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