Background: Building palliative care capacity among all healthcare practitioners caring for
patients with chronic illnesses, who do not work in specialist palliative care services (non …

Background Frailty is associated with advancing age and increases the risk of adverse
outcomes and death. Routine assessment of frailty is becoming more common in a number …

Context Advance care planning (ACP) informs future medical decision-making, especially
for patients with advanced age or serious illness. For clinicians to act on these preferences …

Palliative care for non-malignant disease has attracted much discussion in terms of
identification of patient groups, who should deliver care and the content of that care. It has …

Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading social systems and programs, with interesting
case-studies offering innovative and useful lessons. The book covers ageing and related …

End of life care for people with advanced chronic disease is a growing international
imperative, with the majority of deaths in the world now related to chronic disease. The …

Method A literature search was conducted, initially using the terms “end of life” OR “terminal
care” AND “Huntington's disease”, in the electronic databases PubMed, CINAHL and Wiley …

Background Breathlessness, a common symptom in advanced disease, is a distressing,
complex symptom that can profoundly affect the quality of one's life. Evidence suggests that …

Our aim was to describe Canadian palliative care physicians' attitudes and opinions about
early palliative care and to determine factors associated with receiving early referrals. The …

Background: Ageing populations with associated chronic illnesses and multi-morbidity will
lead to a rapidly escalating need for all levels of palliative care provision. This will place …