Background Effective communication between people with advanced cancer and their family
members on end-of-life issues has a profound impact on meeting needs and improving …

Aim To explore collaborative and interdisciplinary palliative educational strategies and
corresponding outcomes for health care assistants. Background Health care assistants are …

Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and is the leading cause of cancer
death for both men and women in the USA. Symptom burden in patients with advanced lung …

The committee's conceptual framework for a high-quality cancer care delivery system
highlights the critical importance of engaged patients. Patients are at the center of the …

Fundamento y objetivo: Mediante este estudio se buscó conocer la calidad de vida
percibida por pacientes oncológicos terminales que reciben cuidados paliativos, así como …

There is an escalating prevalence of heart failure (HF) with high mortality. Compared with
other races, African Americans face a higher incidence of HF at earlier age of onset, with …

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to create and publish this textbook, Geriatric
Urology. My interest in the field of aging, geriatrics, and gerontology is long-standing, and it …

This article focuses on the issues facing patients with advanced and ultimately terminal
urologic illness, including a framework of care planning based on defining patient and family …

Traditionally, health care providers have had difficulty discussing nonaggressive options of
care with their patients because it is often associated with giving up. In particular, physicians …

Neuropalliative care (NPC) is a relatively new subspeciality of neurology. Recent studies
have demonstrated efficacy of NPC in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the …