Constance Dahlin is a nurse practitioner, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative …

The mouth is the 'gateway'to the body; it is central and pivitol to how we eat, communicate,
laugh, cry and love. Thus, it deserves to be cared for, nurtured and respected like other …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary medical specialty that focuses on preventing and
relieving suffering and on supporting the best possible quality of life for patients and their …

Lesions of the oral cavity have an enormous impact on the quality of life of patients with
advanced disease. They cause considerable morbidity and diminish a patient's physical and …

As we approach the end of our lives, our bodies and organ systems begin to slow down. We
can think of this as the opposite of birth, when our systems are revving up. The transition of …

Welcome to the new ''Evidence for Practice''section. You may remember ''IDT Consult.''That
department has been changed to ''Evidence for Practice''as a way to provide readers with …

The hospice philosophy embraces palliative care for the terminally ill, for whom quality of life
is the central focus of comfort care management. Often, caregivers hesitate or simply do not …

Palliative care dentistry is the management of patients with progressive, far-advanced
disease for whom the oral cavity has been compromised either by disease or by treatment …

Speech-language pathologists require a specialized set of skills to treat end of life (EOL)
patients with dysphagia. SLPs must advance their diagnostic and prognostic skills, adapt …

Purpose Adverse oral symptoms gradually appear in advanced cancer patients as the
disease progresses. We retrospectively investigated the associations between the incidence …