Palliative care is recognised by individualised, holistic models of care, delivered carefully,
sensitively, ethically, and therapeutically by using skilled communication with attention to …

Nursing and palliative care share common roots, goals, and values. To advance palliative
nursing practice, it is essential to discern the unique contribution of palliative nursing to the …

LAST ACTS is a national campaign initiated by health-care delivery and financing system
can the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to severely limit the ability of patients and …

In the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine" palliative care" is defined as" the study and
management of patients with active, progressive, far-advanced disease for whom the …

OBJECTIVES:: To provide a review of the development and impact of palliative care; to
discuss quality of life as a framework for guiding clinical practice and research in palliative …

Palliative care focuses on relieving suffering and achieving the best possible quality of life
for patients and their family caregivers. It involves the assessment and treatment of …

Despite increasing interests and urgent needs for quality end-of-life care, there is no exact
definition of what is the interval referred to as end of life or what end-of-life care is. The …

Palliative care is now delivered across the healthcare continuum, not just in hospice. This
article provides an up-to-date discussion of the definitions, creative approaches, and current …