Disability is a common problem among hospice and palliative care patients. It leads to
depression, poor quality of life, increased caregiver needs, health care resource utilization …

Palliative care requires an interdisciplinary team approach to provide the best care for
patients with life-threatening illnesses. Like palliative medicine, rehabilitation also uses an …

Patients receiving palliative and hospice care experience high levels of functional loss,
dependency on activities of daily living, and impairment in mobility. Physical disability affects …

Disability in patients with advanced cancer often results from bed rest, deconditioning, and
neurologic and musculoskeletal complications of cancer or cancer treatment. Terminally ill …

Objective: Occupational and physical therapists can have a significant impact on the quality
of life of terminally ill cancer patients. In the critical care setting, rehabilitation is often …

Rehabilitation in palliative care is often overlooked. Settings that do consider occupational
or physical therapy for palliative care patients often consult to therapists with competing …

Occupational and physical therapy have several vital roles in hospice care: maximizing
functional ability and comfort to enhance quality of life; assuring patient and caregiver safety; …

Objective: There is a dearth of international research on hospice physiotherapy. This study
aims to profile hospice physiotherapy in an Irish setting in order to inform practice …

The use of physical, occupational, and speech therapy is a growing trend in hospice. The
purpose of this paper is to define the role of the physical, occupational, and speech therapist …

Adequate screening procedures are necessary to identify functional difficulties so that
appropriate help might be provided. There is now a growing body of work on the therapeutic …