Background: The cognitive and communication challenges experienced by people with
intellectual disability present difficulties for health professionals, particularly in the face of …

User involvement has become an important part of health policy initiatives during the last
decade, but how realistic is the concept and do all users want to be involved? This book …

Palliative care professionals often have to negotiate with patients about the profoundly
meaningful using non-verbal communication. This case study explores one narrative …

Background: American College of Surgeons recommends palliative care and surgeons
collaborate on the care of patients with poor prognoses. These collaborations are done to …

Should I take him at his word? I thought about the way he taught me to use a double-headed
axe, how to change a tire, how he had trusted me to solder copper pipes in our house when …

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

Communication is the cornerstone of palliative care; it is the essence of the art and science
of palliative nursing. 2 Essential aspects of nursing communication include caring …

In the March 2013 issue of Palliative Medicine, authors Van Mechelen et al. perform a
systematic review of medical literature searching for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in …

Background Despite robust evidence for the integration of early palliative care for patients
with advanced cancer, many patients still access this approach to care late. Communication …

While effective general practitioner (GP)–patient communication is required for the provision
of good palliative care, barriers and facilitators for this communication are largely unknown …