The World Health Association defines palliative care as a medical discipline that aims to
improve the quality of life of the patient and caregiver/family faced with an incurable and …

Although patients with incurable neurological diseases suffer from a variety of distressing
symptoms and may die from their neurological condition and associated complications …

Patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI), including traumatic brain injuries, typically
present acutely neurologically devastated, with uncertain prognosis, and are unable to …

Neurodegenerative illnesses are notorious for paucity of treatments and relentless clinical
progression. Illness may follow a relatively acute presentation, as is seen with primary brain …

In the absence of effective disease-modifying drugs, the emphasis in all of the
neurodegenerative diseases is on symptom management and maintenance of quality of life …

Specialist palliative care services are often involved in the care of people with progressive
neurological disease, in particular amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. However, the particular …

It has long been recognized that patients with neurological conditions, and particularly
pediatric neurology patients, are well suited for palliative care because they frequently have …

As there are, to date, few curative treatment options for many neurologic diseases, end of life
(EOL) care is an important aspect of the treatment of neurologic patients. In the EOL phase …

As neuropalliative care is better recognized and more widely utilized, there is as great a
need for clinicians trained in the field as there is for disease-specific symptom management …

Purpose of review While care for patients with movement disorders has traditionally focused
on motor symptoms, there is increasing evidence that optimal care for these disorders is …