Background: The European population is rapidly ageing, resulting in increasing numbers of
older people dying in long-term care facilities. There is an urgent need for palliative care in …

The Eurobarometer Survey of the EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care
in Europe is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the …

Background The role of the resource nurse aims at bridging the gap between the specialist
nurses and the nurses who work in non-specialist wards. The role is established …

Background: Physiotherapists, as essential members of the multidisciplinary palliative care
team, are key to the successful rehabilitation of palliative patients. There is, however, a …

There has been a steady expansion of hospital-based palliative care in the United Kingdom
but limited published research on health professionals' views of hospital multidisciplinary …

Background Caring for individuals and their families with a life-limiting, symptomatic illness
and those who are dying has long been an integral role of palliative care nurses. Yet, over …

Background: A multidisciplinary European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce was
established to scope the extent of and learn what facilitates and hinders the development of …

Background Despite a broad consensus and recommendations, numerous international
reports or studies have shown the difficulties of implementing palliative care within …

Background: To enable coordinated palliative care delivery, all clinicians should have basic
palliative care skill sets ('generalist palliative care'). Specialists should have skills for …

ObjectivePalliative care training at basic, intermediate, and specialist levels, recommended
by the World Health Organization (WHO), is challenging to access in resource-poor …