Palliative care is specialized medical care offered to persons with serious health conditions,
with the goal to relieve or prevent pain and suffering, to manage burdensome symptoms …

Purpose With increasing frequency, speech-language pathologists are asked to provide
feeding and swallowing evaluations and treatment to children with tracheostomies. The …

Purpose The purpose of this report is to promote conversation among medical speech-
language pathologists (SLPs) about their role in facilitating family–patient interaction …

Mr. R was a 55-year-old man diagnosed with ALS. Two years prior, he developed
weakness, twitching, and tingling sensation in his arms. He reported interval worsening in …

This chapter will consider key literature and theoretical perspectives relating to end-oflife
care, palliative care and hospice care, with a particular focus on the relevance of speech …