منابع مشابه
Palliative care isn't just for the dying.
A nurse wishes her son and family had received it after his cancer diagnosis.
متن کاملPatterns of dying: palliative care for non-malignant disease.
As awareness grows of the palliative care needs of those diagnosed with advanced life-threatening illness other than cancer, consideration needs to be given to how to address these needs. This paper focuses on palliative care for those with such diagnoses by describing variations in illness trajectory according to diagnosis, and exploring how this may affect provision of palliative care.
متن کاملPalliative care is not just for those who are dying.
And so at our next appointment we were greeted by two paediatricians who wanted to talk to us. They asked us what was going on. It felt natural to tell them our story. They listened intently, and I realised the purpose of this questioning much later: they wanted to get a sense of us first. “What would you like to happen?” I choked up in tears. I hadn’t told anyone about my wish to meet her, to ...
متن کاملDying for attention: palliative care in the acute setting.
BACKGROUND Palliative care has emerged as a specialist discipline in the past 25 years. However in relation to acute hospitals, a sense exists that patients who are receiving end of life care may not experience support which fully reflects appropriate palliative care management. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to analyse the end of life care received by patients in the acute wards of a busy teachi...
متن کاملThe unmet palliative care needs of those dying with dementia.
An estimated 33.9 million people are living with dementia worldwide. The overall estimated median survival time from onset of dementia to death is 4.1 years for men and 4.6 years for women, with longer survival times in those with early-onset dementia. Much has been discussed about the needs of this vulnerable group of people particularly in terms of their health-care and end-of-life care (EoLC...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6985.1007