This paper reports on the experience of undergraduate speech–language pathology
students at one university chosen for the implementation stage of the Palliative Care …

Providing quality palliative care services is a national priority, and speech pathologists play
an integral role in this area managing communication and swallowing difficulties. However …

Speech–language pathologists often lack preparation for palliative care practice and this
lack of training can lead to poor outcomes for patients. Lack of training can additionally lead …

Background Speech pathologists have a pivotal role in palliative care, assisting patients with
swallowing and communication disorders, yet very little is known about the preparedness of …

Palliative care is specialized medical care offered to persons with serious health conditions,
with the goal to relieve or prevent pain and suffering, to manage burdensome symptoms …

Background The involvement of speech and language therapists (SLTs) within paediatric
palliative care (PPC) settings has been recognized within the extant literature. However …

Speech-language pathologists often lack preparation for working with patients near the end
of life (EoL). Few academic training programs offer dedicated or sufficient content in the area …

Undoubtedly, the need to provide clinically relevant, focused and substantive education
programmes to meet the challenge of palliative care practice remains high on the agenda for …

Hersh (2010) raises important issues regarding the ending of the therapeutic relationship. In
this paper, we will explore this concept in relation to speech-language pathology (SLP) and …

BACKGROUND: The majority of society's deaths occur in a health care environment.
Regardless of whether a death occurs in acute care, hospice, residential aged care or …