Palliative care is multidisciplinary and its approach is focused both on the patient and their
family. It encompasses the care of the patient and family during the progression to incurable …

Caring for people who are dying has been seen as a special form of care for centuries. In the
first millennium the church was closely involved with such care and the original hospices …

This qualitative study explores the concept of ideal palliative care as it broadens its field of
application from terminal care to include people earlier in the course of an illness. Focus …

While the uptake of palliative care in the United States is steadily improving, there continues
to be a gap in which many patients are not offered care that explicitly elicits and respects …

Background: Palliative care professionals have recognized the importance of hope for their
patients. However, they sometimes experience hope as a barrier for end-of-life …

The Caregiver's Griefs Page 1 Orienteering The Caregiver's Griefs This feature in each issue
of the journal, will serve to indicate a main direction of thought about palliative care, somewhat …

Background: To provide truly patient-centered palliative care services, there is a need to
better understand the perspectives and experiences of patients and families. Increased …

Objective: While most pediatric palliative care (PPC) teams do not yet routinely include
psychology, roles for pediatric psychologists in PPC are expanding. The goals of this …

As patients with terminal disease enter into the final stage of their illness, psychiatric
symptoms and psychological responses to the disease contribute to overall suffering of both …

mote the exchange of information on the psychosocial aspects of care. The dimension of
care I will address is the psychosocial challenge of palliative caring. Caring is the …