The development of palliative care in Croatia began in the early 1990s with Prof. Anica
Jušić, who helped organize the first Congress on Palliative Care and also founded the …

Introduction George Bernard Shaw once wrote:''The single biggest problem in
communication is the illusion that it has taken place.''I hope this introductory part will …

Palliative cancer care is an active treatment and nursing intervention in patients in whom
cancer therapy has been withdrawn due to untreatable progression of the cancer disease …

In the Czech Republic more than 70,000 patients with chronic incurable diseases need
palliative care each year. In 50,000 this need is manageable in the context of general …

Palliative care has not been recognized as a specific discipline by health care professionals
and policy makers in Serbia and Montenegro. There is low awareness of palliative care …

e20749 Beginning of the hospice care in Poland is associated with democratic opposition in
the eighties of the XX century and social movement Solidarity. In 1978, C. Saunders visited …

Slovakia is a country with no tradition of home care services and a long history of regarding
death and dying as taboos and therefore institutionalising them. Increased attention to …

Hospice/palliative care, as the World Health Organization has recognized, is the active, total
care of patients whose disease no longer responds to curative treatment, and for whom the …

Če parafraziram znan latinski rek» Sedare dolorem opus divinum est «(Lajšati bolečino je
božansko delo), lahko v tem kratkem stavku povzamem vsebino, pomen in pomembnost …

The history of the development of palliative care at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana dates
back to the 1990s when counseling and advisory work in the field of palliative care began. In …