The purpose of this study was to survey speech-language pathologists (S-LPs) working in
Canada, who identified themselves as providing services to older adults or adults with …

Background Oral health problems among people receiving palliative care are common and
can significantly affect quality of life. Nurses are at the frontline of palliative care in Australia …

Over the last two decades, dysphagia is increasingly recognized as a significant short-term
and long-term issue in oropharyngeal cancer patients. However, there remains a lack of …

Palliative care is the holistic approach to provide relief to patients suffering from life
threatening diseases and their families throughout the disease. This is mainly through the …

Background In the past decades, many new insights and best practices in palliative care, a
relatively new field in health care, have been published. However, this knowledge is often …

Background: Public health and palliative care are both broad disciplines with blurred
boundaries. There is growing support for an alignment of palliative care to public health …

Background: The European population is rapidly ageing, resulting in increasing numbers of
older people dying in long-term care facilities. There is an urgent need for palliative care in …

Objectives Despite a number of studies on effectiveness of palliative care, there is a lack of
complex updated review of the impact of in-hospital palliative care consult service. The …

There is currently growing recognition of the complex care needs of patients with life-limiting
conditions and their family members, prompting the need to revisit the goals of medicine …

AimTo synthesize information about management of end of life care in people with dementia
using review papers. BackgroundThere are increasing numbers of people being diagnosed …