Dying among older adults in Switzerland: who dies in hospital, who dies in a nursing home?

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is little scholarship on culturally safe approaches to palliative care, especially for rural Indigenous clients. Thus, it is important to articulate how cultural safety can be enacted to support rural Indigenous Peoples and communities at end of life. We sought to identify strategies described in exist...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Schill K,Caxaj S

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the home is the most common setting for the provision of palliative care in Australia, a common problem encountered here is the inability of patient/carers to manage medications, which can lead to misadventure and hospitalisation. This can be averted through detection and resolution of drug related pro...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Hussainy SY,Box M,Scholes S

更新日期：2011-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Being a family carer to a patient nearing the end of their life is a challenging and confronting experience. Studies show that caregiving can have negative consequences on the health of family carers including fatigue, sleep problems, depression, anxiety and burnout. One of the goals of palliative care is to...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Hudson PL,Remedios C,Thomas K

更新日期：2010-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about palliative care professionals' attitudes towards guidelines. In 2015, the German Association for Palliative Medicine (DGP) published an evidence based guideline for palliative care in adults with incurable cancer. Before publication we conducted a national survey among members of the DG...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Kalies H,Schöttmer R,Simon ST,Voltz R,Crispin A,Bausewein C

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In palliative care (PC) patients and relatives (P/R) often show their gratitude to the healthcare professionals (HP) who care for them. HP appreciate these displays of gratitude, although the impact of the same has not been examined in detail. Publications analysed tell personal experiences in which HP say t...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Aparicio M,Centeno C,Arantzamendi M

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A compassionate community approach to palliative care provides important rationale for building community-based hospice volunteer capacity. In this project, we piloted one such capacity-building model in which volunteers and a nurse partnered to provide navigation support beginning in the early palliative ph...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Pesut B,Duggleby W,Warner G,Fassbender K,Antifeau E,Hooper B,Greig M,Sullivan K

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the feasibility and acceptability of lower limb neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) as a home-based exercise therapy in patients with cancer who could not attend hospital-based exercise training. METHODS:A single-arm prospective pilot study of NMES, applied daily to both quadriceps musc...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Windholz T,Swanson T,Vanderbyl BL,Jagoe RT

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research suggests that there may be bereavement experiences and support needs which are specific to family caregivers providing end of life care (EoLC), although this remains an under-researched area. This paper focuses on themes relating to bereavement which were derived from an analysis of free text survey...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Harrop E,Morgan F,Byrne A,Nelson A

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：: Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders of the elderly population. Few therapeutic options are available for patients with PD requiring palliative care. Treatment of the early stages of PD is entirely different from later stages. During the later stages, the palliative care mode...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Lokk J,Delbari A

更新日期：2012-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Development of interventions that address psychosocial and existential distress in people with motor neurone disease (MND) or that alleviate caregiver burden in MND family carers have often been suggested in the research literature. Dignity therapy, which was developed to reduce psychosocial and...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Bentley B,Aoun SM,O'Connor M,Breen LJ,Chochinov HM

更新日期：2012-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) was developed for evaluating essential outcomes for palliative care patients. Our objectives here are to describe the process of a six-phase cross-cultural adaptation of IPOS to French (IPOS-Fr), highlight the difficulties encountered and strategies to solv...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Sterie AC,Bernard M

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children show long-term psychological distress if family communication and illness-related information are poor during and after a parent's illness and death. Few psychosocial interventions for families with minor children living with a parent who has a life-threatening illness have been evaluated rigorously...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Eklund R,Alvariza A,Kreicbergs U,Jalmsell L,Lövgren M

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laws allowing assisted suicide and euthanasia have been implemented in many locations around the world but some individuals suffering with terminal illness receiving palliative care services are hastening death or die by suicide without assistance. This systematic review aims to summarise evidence of palliat...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Gerson SM,Bingley A,Preston N,Grinyer A

更新日期：2019-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Parental palliative disease is a family affair, however adolescent's well-being and coping are still rarely considered. The objectives of this paper were a) to identify differences in psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents and young adults with paren...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Kühne F,Krattenmacher T,Bergelt C,Ernst JC,Flechtner HH,Führer D,Herzog W,Klitzing KV,Romer G,Möller B

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited population-level research on end-of-life care in Australia that considers health care use and costs across hospital and community sectors. The aim of this study was to quantify health care use and costs in the last 6 months of life in a cohort of elderly Australian decedents and to examine t...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Reeve R,Srasuebkul P,Langton JM,Haas M,Viney R,Pearson SA,EOL-CC study authors.

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding end of life preferences amongst the oldest old is crucial to informing appropriate palliative and end of life care internationally. However, little has been reported in the academic literature about the end of life preferences of people in advanced age, particularly the preferences of indigenou...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Gott M,Frey R,Wiles J,Rolleston A,Teh R,Moeke-Maxwell T,Kerse N

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand the status of residents' awareness of and demand for hospice care services in Hangzhou and to provide a reference for promoting the formulation of hospice care-related policies in China. METHODS:A small cross-sectional survey of 519 adults aged over 40 years old living in the rural-urban fring...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Xie Y,Xu Y,Yang S,Yan J,Jin XQ,Liu C

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Population-based mortality follow-back survey designs have been used to collect information concerning end-of-life care from bereaved family members in several countries. In Canada, this design was recently employed to gather population-based information about the end-of-life care experience among adults in Nova Scoti...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Lawson B,Van Aarsen K,Burge F

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, the number of people who die with dementia is increasing. The importance of a palliative approach in the care of people with dementia is recognised and there are national polices to enhance current care. In the UK implementation of these polices is promoted by the National Institute for Health and ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Candy B,Elliott M,Moore K,Vickerstaff V,Sampson E,Jones L

更新日期：2015-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life of patients and families through the prevention and relief of suffering. Frequently, patients may choose to receive palliative care in the home. The objective of this paper is to summarize the quality and primary outcomes measured within the pallia...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Hofmeister M,Memedovich A,Dowsett LE,Sevick L,McCarron T,Spackman E,Stafinski T,Menon D,Noseworthy T,Clement F

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Much of what we understand about the design of healthcare systems to support care of the dying comes from our experiences with providing palliative care for dying cancer patients. It is increasingly recognized that in addition to cancer, high quality end of life care should be an integral part of care that i...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Sawatzky R,Porterfield P,Lee J,Dixon D,Lounsbury K,Pesut B,Roberts D,Tayler C,Voth J,Stajduhar K

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to common practice based on a generally agreed interpretation of Icelandic law on the rights of patients, health care professionals cannot discuss prognosis and treatment with a patient's family without that patient's consent. This limitation poses ethical problems, because research has shown that,...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Skulason B,Hauksdottir A,Ahcic K,Helgason AR

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homeless people often suffer from complex and chronic comorbidities, have high rates of morbidity and die at much younger ages than the general population. Due to a complex combination of physical, psychosocial and addiction problems at the end of life, they often have limited access to palliative care. Both...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Klop HT,de Veer AJE,van Dongen SI,Francke AL,Rietjens JAC,Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Confinement to an in-patient hospital ward impairs patients' sense of social support and connectedness. Providing the means, through communication technology, for patients to maintain contact with friends and family can potentially improve well-being at the end of life by minimizing social isolation and faci...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Guo Q,Cann B,McClement S,Thompson G,Chochinov HM

更新日期：2017-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Professionals and relatives increasingly have to deal with people with intellectual disabilities (ID) who are in need of end-of-life care. This is a specific type of care that may require a different approach to the focus on participation that currently characterizes the care for people with ID. This paper d...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Bekkema N,de Veer AJ,Hertogh CM,Francke AL

更新日期：2015-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although spiritual care is a basic element of holistic nursing, nurses' spiritual care knowledge and abilities are often unable to satisfy patients' spiritual care needs. Therefore, nurses are in urgent need of relevant training to enhance their abilities to provide patients with spiritual care. DESIGN:A no...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Hu Y,Jiao M,Li F

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Volunteers play a significant role in supporting hospice and palliative care in Africa, but little is known about the types of volunteers, their motivations and roles in service delivery. METHODS:Palliative care experts from 30 African countries were invited to participate in an online survey, conducted in ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Loth CC,Namisango E,Powell RA,Pabst KH,Leng M,Hamada M,Radbruch L

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though struggling with similar symptom burden, patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) receive less palliative care than patients suffering from malignant diseases. Researchers have found that this might be related to lack of knowledge about palliative care, insufficient interprofessional communicatio...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Ziehm J,Farin E,Seibel K,Becker G,Köberich S

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More attention is being paid to the wellbeing of staff working in stressful situations. However, little is known about staff experience of providing end-of-life care to children within a hospice setting. This study aims to explore the experiences of care team staff who provide end-of-life care within a child...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： McConnell T,Porter S

更新日期：2017-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have found that cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can effectively manage their own symptoms when given tailored advice. This approach, however, may challenge patients with poor performance status and/or emotional distress. Our goal is to test an automated intervention that engages a fr...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Silveira MJ,Given CW,Cease KB,Sikorskii A,Given B,Northouse LL,Piette JD

更新日期：2011-11-25 00:00:00