Death Anxiety in Palliative Care

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Physician-assisted death is not palliative care.

[Palliative care regulation and assisted death].

This article analyzes the Mexican regulation on palliative care and its relationship with the public debate on assisted death or suicide. This paper focuses on the rights that people with incurable diseases have, given the current contents of the General Health Statute and other applicable rules. Its main purpose is to activate the public debate on these matters.

PALLIATIVE CARE Depression, Anxiety, and Asthenia in Advanced Illness

Depression, anxiety, and asthenia are frequently experienced by those suffering with an advanced (life-limiting) illness. Many caregivers may feel that it is “normal for patients in this condition to be depressed or anxious,” and this misunderstanding may lead to missed opportunities to address a treatable condition. The role played by the yet more “normal” phenomenon of asthenia (ie, reduced e...

Bereaved spouses' adjustment after the patients' death in palliative care.

OBJECTIVES To improve the support to bereaved spouses during the year after the patient's death, a project was started consisting of three visits by a nurse (after 1, 3, and 13 months) with conversations about the patient's death and the spouse's life situation. The aim of this study was to describe the bereaved spouse's situation and adaptation during the first year after the loss. METHODS S...