Palliative care for patients with communication and cognitive difficulties

K Sue, P Mazzotta, E Grier - Canadian Family Physician, 2019 - cfp.ca
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 …

Revised recommendations on standards and norms for palliative care in Europe from the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC): A Delphi study

S Payne, A Harding, T Williams, J Ling… - Palliative …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In 2009, the EAPC published recommendations on standards and norms for
palliative care in Europe, and a decade later, wished to update them to reflect contemporary …

Disorders of swallowing: palliative care

SE Langmore, G Grillone, A Elackattu… - Otolaryngologic Clinics of …, 2009 - Elsevier
This article defines palliative care for swallowing disorders as treatment for severe and
chronic dysphagia or intractable aspiration when the recovery of normal swallowing is not …

The palliative care needs and experiences of people with advanced head and neck cancer: a scoping review

CR Mayland, QM Ho, HC Doughty… - Palliative …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The palliative care needs of people with advanced head and neck cancer pose
unique complexities due to the impact the illness has on eating, speaking, appearance and …

Developing a research agenda for adult palliative care: a modified Delphi study

R Sullivan, A Ugalde, C Sinclair… - Journal of palliative …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Background: Little is known about research priorities in adult palliative care. Identifying
research priorities for adult palliative care will help in increasing research quality and …

Dysphagia: implications for older people

N Miller, J Patterson - Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 2014 - cambridge.org
Dysphagia represents a salient concern in many conditions prevalent in older people. There
are direct implications for morbidity and mortality. The importance of recognizing and …

Oral Complications at the End of Life: Although dysphagia and stomatitis can have devastating effects on the quality of a patient's life, there are many ways to manage …

C Dahlin - AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Constance Dahlin is a nurse practitioner, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative …

General practitioners' perceptions of best practice care at the end of life: a qualitative study

A Herrmann, M Carey, A Zucca, L Boyd, B Roberts - BJGP open, 2019 - bjgpopen.org
Background GPs can play a central role in palliative care delivery. However, little is known
about their views on what constitutes best practice care at the end of life. Aim To explore, in …

Critical attitudes and beliefs towards guidelines amongst palliative care professionals–results from a national survey

H Kalies, R Schöttmer, ST Simon, R Voltz, A Crispin… - BMC palliative …, 2017 - Springer
Background Little is known about palliative care professionals' attitudes towards guidelines.
In 2015, the German Association for Palliative Medicine (DGP) published an evidence …

Palliative paramedicine: comparing clinical practice through guideline quality appraisal and qualitative content analysis

ML Juhrmann, NE Anderson, M Boughey… - Palliative …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Palliative care is an emerging scope of practice for paramedicine. The COVID-
19 pandemic has highlighted the opportunity for emergency settings to deliver palliative and …