Recent reports highlight an inconsistent provision of palliative and end-of-life (palliative)
care across Australia, particularly in regional, rural and remote areas. Palliative care …

Title. Assessing palliative care needs: views of patients, informal carers and healthcare
professionals Aim. This paper reports a study to assess the palliative care needs of the adult …

In Australia, over the past three decades, interest in improving the care of dying patients has
progressed from being the concern of a few health care professionals to being a widespread …

Conclusion To improve the quality and quantity of palliative care across Canada, all family
physicians need to be actively involved on an ongoing basis. In answer to the question …

As Australia's population ages, three things are inevitable: more people will develop chronic
illnesses; more will grow very ill and more will die. Blueprints for the future suggest an …

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Various methods of delivering specialist palliative care to rural
areas have been discussed in the literature, but published evaluations of these models are …

Palliative Care Research Fellow Austin Health Clinical School of Nursing La Trobe
University Melbourne, Australia longer is 'living in place'but 'dying in place'? Do they stay or …

Background: Regional palliative care consultation (PCC) teams aim to support health care
professionals by telephone in providing quality palliative care (PC) in the Netherlands …

It is already clear that 2007 will be a year of significant advocacy challenges for palliative
care with the Federal Government election and negotiations for the next five year Australian …

While policy promotes comprehensive assessment of family carer needs and a plan to
adequately meet family carer needs within palliative care, there is a lack of studies in the …