Defining Palliative Care Needs in Parkinson's Disease

Needs of elderly patients in palliative care.

A pilot study on elderly patients' end-of-life needs was performed at a Swedish geriatric palliative ward. Thirty patients (15 men and 15 women; mean age, 79 years) with a primary diagnosis of cancer and admitted for palliative care were interviewed by a nurse using semistructured interviews. The study included demographic data, physical and psychologic status, and naming and ranking of individ...

Palliative care: Progress, needs, and challenges

Palliative care is increasingly available and the importance of its role increasingly recognized. International work toward making palliative care a basic human right underscores the growing need to ensure comfort and pain relief for the terminally ill. The organizational structures in place for providing such care vary greatly within and across countries; even definition of the term is not uni...

Palliative care in chronic disease.

Defining and measuring a palliative approach in primary care.

The most frequently cited statistic about palliative care in Canada, quoted in numerous publications from Canadian policy makers,1 politicians,2 academics,3 advocates,4 and the mass media,5 is that “only 16-30% of those who need it receiv[e] palliative care.”6 The fallacy in this claim, of course, is the implication that all Canadians approaching the end of life should be cared for by specialis...

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...