Within the United Kingdom, the general practitioner (GP) will manage the care of the majority
of patients with life-limiting and terminal disease. Even those patients with complex …

Background: Hospital-based palliative care consultative teams assist with decision-making,
symptom management, patient and family support, and discharge planning for those with …

Palliative care: promoting general practice participation Page 1 Palliative care: promoting
general practice participation Geoffrey K Mitchell, Elizabeth J Reymond and Barry PM McGrath …

People with a mental illness have an excess mortality, a reduced life expectancy and die
from ten to fifteen years earlier than the general population In the face of such sobering facts …

Palliative Care Research Fellow Austin Health Clinical School of Nursing La Trobe
University Melbourne, Australia longer is 'living in place'but 'dying in place'? Do they stay or …

Background Conversations that are 'honest, informed and timely'are essential to achieving
good end of life and palliative care. The 2011 CENSUS highlighted that 1 million people …

Background The end of life represents a therapeutic context that acutely raises cultural and
linguistic specificities, yet there is very little evidence illustrating the importance of such …

Within palliative care, clear and open communication about death is encouraged.
Euphemisms are discouraged as threats to promoting clear understanding of the prognosis; …

The palliative journey: Keeping pharmacists in the loop Page 1 Australian Pharmacist May
2012 I ©Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Ltd. 365 COVER STORY Communication – or the …

Western healthcare is founded upon a deficit model. The aspiration for health services is
that, through the good management of disease, people will live long, healthy, and happy …