Context End-of-life communication in acute care settings can be challenging and many
patients and families have reported low satisfaction with those conversations. Objective To …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of how written communication can
support the needs of palliative care patients. There is growing awareness that a patient …

Worldwide, meaning and valence of words are being examined and weighed. This also
occurs in healthcare, where campaigns demand attention for the fact that being terminally ill …

Background: Age-related hearing loss is remarkably common, affecting more than 60% of
adults over the age of 75. Moreover, hearing loss has detrimental effects on quality of life …

This chapter explores palliative care communication between clinicians and their patients
with advanced lung diseases. Individuals living with advanced lung disease experience …

Background Support is growing for integration of palliative care into standard oncology
practice, but provision remains suboptimal. Little is known about how patients perceive …

Purpose: There is emerging recognition within the literature that speech-language
pathologists (SLPs) have a role in the provision of paediatric palliative care (PPC). SLPs …

IF ASKED, MOST PALLIATIVE CARE professionals would say that they believe doctor-
patient communication is important. This is not surprising. A doctor talks to patients more …

The treatment of laryngeal cancer (LC) has advanced immensely over the past century, and
clinicians now have a large armamentarium of therapeutic modalities from which they can …