Interacting with terminally-ill patients is significantly stressful for caregiving families. To date,
few studies have examined how caregivers perceive their communication with dying family …

Objective: Optimal communication is essential in ensuring that the palliative care needs of
patients are met. This continues to be an area of concern for healthcare providers. The goal …

This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical
stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life …

Background. Thousands of South Africans are diagnosed with life-threatening illness every
year. Research shows that, globally, of the 20 million people who need palliative care at the …

Good, effective communication among critically ill patients, their families, and providers is
often challenging and complex. The concerns and dissatisfaction about poor communication …

Effective symptom control is impossible without effective communication. The most powerful
analgesics will be of little value if health care professionals do not have an accurate …

Objective: This report describes a novel 3-hour workshop on delivering bad news and
discussing end-of-life goals of care for internal medicine interns, and its effect on the interns' …

The purpose of this investigation is to describe how hospitalized palliative care patients
respond to the question “What bothers you the most?” at the time of initial consultation. A …

Talking about sad, bad, and difficult things with patients and their families is a fundamental
and an inevitable part of the health-care professional's (HCPs) work, but one in which few …

Objective To help increase the confidence of both caregivers and clinicians in providing
palliative care to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) using an easy …