palliative care

In large parts of Africa, cancer is only diagnosed in the late stages, pain relief is lacking, and palliative care is in its infancy.

Because of her work, Cooney knew to ask for palliative care when she was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer nearly three years ago.

Soluble morphine costs only a few cents a dose and Africa gets big money for AIDS victims. A little could be diverted to palliative care.

In the Heart Lotus Palliative Care Ward, they dressed beautifully as bride and groom so I could give them my blessings.

This article explores the experience of four senior nurses who set out to introduce primary nursing to a palliative care setting.

But I used a program of palliative care to control my symptoms and allow me to tolerate the chemo.

Diabetes mellitus is increasing in incidence and is therefore being encountered more frequently during palliative care.

During the whole period from admission to discharge, each step of palliative care may be involved in various legal issues.

Relief from physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems can be achieved in over 90% of advanced cancer patients through palliative care.

The Hakomi Method can be applied to all human relationships, say specialists: in education, customer service, palliative care, and so forth.

Good palliative care does not rely on expensive technology, but it does need staff to clean, feed and wash people.

The resolution calls for improved cancer prevention measures, better early detection and treatment, and increased palliative care.

But, in line with almost every other form of medical care, palliative care has its limits.

Context The current state of palliative care in cancer centers is not known.

In this volume the Editors bring together first-rate palliative care with oncological treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer.

All patients in need of pain relief could be helped if current knowledge about pain control and palliative care were applied.

Workers in palliative care across the world already talk to each other in a very down-to-earth way.

This study confirmed the unique role and professional services of clinical Buddhist chaplains in Hospice Palliative Care.

There are two roles for palliative care in dementia. One is to provide proactive symptom alleviation, prognostic evaluation and dying care.

Part 1 examined definitions of palliative care nursing, its core aims and values, and recent policies on end-of-life care.

Another goal is to get palliative care added to the national health plans of African governments.

Palliative care helped with many aspects of cancer therapy, which put her in remission for two years, Cooney says.

In United State or many European countries, palliative care has been applied to terminal non-cancer patients.

Nurses came from the Southern Tier Hospice and Palliative Care Center to take care of her.

The findings identified key areas of family-centred palliative care that warrant further investigation.

There are several sources for children's medicines and treatments to address opportunistic infections, palliative care, pain and pneumonia.

Objective To investigate the correlated knowledge about palliative care on nurses.

Norway has palliative-care centres at its six main teaching hospitals and lots of community-based provision.

These volumes will give clinicians excellent advice on symptom control in the context of palliative care.

The study was paid for by Britain's National Council for Palliative Care and was published online Thursday in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

the key alternative to euthanasia--palliative care--is largely unavailable in Holland.

Palliative care can relieve symptoms and improve life quality of the patients.

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children is about the care of children for whom cure of their underlying disease is not possible.

Belgium trains all its family doctors in palliative care, but has very few specialist teams of carers.

The first part of this unit explored the effect on patients of witnessing a death in hospital or a palliative care environment.

Dr. Robert Twycross, a leading British authority on palliative care.

The goals of total care in hospice palliative care include relief of pain and suffering.

Palliative care also could help cut spiraling medical costs, Smith says.

Like most Dutch people, she knew little about options in palliative care. '

When patients die in a hospital or palliative care environment it can be a common occurrence for them to die in a shared area.

Despite the improvements of the past 20 years, not all nursing homes have accepted basic palliative-care principles.

The development and payment policy of hospice palliative care should be coordinated with long term care system.

Palliative care is treatment to relieve, rather than cure, symptoms caused by cancer.

But experts say two words come close: palliative care.

As long as that continues, the central bankers, even if they get things right, can offer only palliative care.

He says a budget rise from $2. 5m to $8m would help to train nurses and improve palliative care.

For many years I worked in palliative care.

The palliative care needs of people with dementia have received little attention to date.

They can receive palliative care to ease the signs of their sickness.

The field of palliative care has emphasized that attention to symptoms such as pain is integral to quality cancer care.

Objective To study the needs of palliative care education for aged patients in hospital and the influencing factors.

Effect of Palliative Care on the Quality of Life of the Elderly Advanced Lung Cancer Patients

Anxiety and Suffering Withdrawal from social support Poor coping Limited participation in palliative care treatment goals Family distress

Palliative Care: General principles & Ethical considerations

Current situation of palliative care and the consideration of it

On Medical Students for Humanism and Hospice and Palliative Care Course

Palliative Care in Resource-Poor Environments

Essential Attitude in Palliative Care

Research progress on palliative care both at home and in abroad

Indian Journal of Palliative Care

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

Nerve blocks in palliative care

The Status Quo of Palliative Care in China and the Strategies for Future Development

Discussion on the ethic significance of palliative care in China

Review and Status of Palliative Care in China