Published in BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundHome healthcare (HHC) comprises clinical services provided by medical professionals for people living at home with various levels of care needs and health conditions. HHC may reduce care transitions from home to acute hospitals, but its long-term impact on homebound people living with dementia (PLWD) towards end-of-life remains unclear. W...
Published in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics
Primary palliative care is a fundamental aspect of high-quality care for patients with a serious illness such as dementia. The clinician caring for a patient and family suffering with dementia can provide primary palliative care in numerous ways. Perhaps the most important aspects are high quality communication while sharing a diagnosis, counseling...
Published in Current Oncology Reports
Purpose of Review To present new findings in order to aid in the provision of high-quality symptom management and psychosocial care for adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer at the end of life. Recent Findings Behavioral health providers support patients by teaching them symptom control skills, building legacies, and making meaning of t...
Published in BMC Palliative Care
BackgroundIn Indonesia, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) are a contributing factor to mortality with most cases involving heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease and diabetes. Accordingly, the identification of palliative care needs is very important as a first step in providing palliative care for these patients with NCD. However, currently the...
Published in Schmerz (Berlin, Germany)
Hintergrund Obwohl Opioide wirksam Schmerzen und Dyspnoe lindern, findet dies in Leitlinien zur Symptomkontrolle unterschiedliche Gewichtung. Hierdurch können auch bei COVID-19 Unsicherheiten bezüglich Indikationen und ethischer Implikationen im Umgang mit Opioiden entstehen. Ziel der Arbeit Wir untersuchten die persönliche Wahrnehmung des Umgangs ...
Published in Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
The COVID-19 pandemic and nursing shortage has impacted new graduate nurse (NGN) careers. Many NGNs gain initial employment with intensive care areas, encountering unprecedented stress due to high patient acuities, technology, and deaths. Having not yet transitioned into nursing practice, the NGN can experience a reality shock. Nurses are responsib...
Published in Supportive Care in Cancer
Context Pain management in palliative care remains inadequate; the development of innovative therapeutic options is needed. Objectives To determine the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness for larger randomised controlled trials of 3D head-mounted (HMD) virtual reality (VR) for managing cancer pain (CP) in adults. Methods Thirteen people recei...
Published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine
BackgroundRespiratory medicine (RM) and palliative care (PC) physicians’ management of chronic breathlessness in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fibrotic interstitial lung disease (fILD) and lung cancer (LC), and the influence of practice guidelines was explored via an online survey.MethodsA voluntary, online survey was distr...
Published in Leadership in health services (Bradford, England)
This paper aims to propose a model studying the relationship of authentic leadership (AL), structural empowerment (SE) and civility in the palliative care sector. This model proposes SE as a mediator between AL and civility. Data was collected from 213 employees working in five major public palliative care hospitals in central Portugal. The study s...
Published in JMA journal
Cancer patients in adolescents and young adults (AYA) generation aged 15-39 years have various psychosocial needs during their treatment course such as school enrollment, finding employment, marriage, and fertility. It is difficult for medical professionals to gain experience related to providing medical care and consultation support to these kinds...
