The rising trend of chronic life-threatening illnesses is accompanied by an exponential
increase in serious health-related suffering. Palliative care is known to ameliorate physical …

Purpose Maintenance of oral feeding is important in terms of maintaining and improving the
quality of life in terminal cancer patients receiving palliative care. Although adequate oral …

Introduction Although much is asked clinically and emotionally of children and adolescents
who are receiving treatment for a life-threatening illness, they are not routinely asked how …

Background: Patients with palliative care needs do not access specialist palliative care
services according to their needs. Clinical Nurse Specialists working across a variety of …

Purpose Traditionally, etiology of dysphagia is thought to be related to multiple medical
diagnoses including stroke, head and neck cancer, degenerative neurological conditions …

General practitioners (GPs) deliver the majority of palliative care to patients in the last year of
life. This article seeks to examine the nature of GP care, perceptions of the GPs themselves …

Dysphagia, or difficulty in swallowing, is a condition with a strong age-related bias. Rates of
dysphagia vary due to differences in method between studies; eg, clinical history of" …

There is limited literature on the nature and extent of voice and swallowing impairment in
patients with lung cancer. Well designed studies with robust and sensitive multidimensional …

Swallowing problems, or dysphagia, are common as people age, and are associated with
significant negative outcomes, including weight loss, pneumonia, dehydration, shortened life …

Dysphagia and related problems with oral intake must certainly be numbered among the
important geriatric syndromes. 1 They, like other geriatric syndromes, become increasingly …