Background It can be difficult to identify when a palliative care approach should be started
both in malignant, and particularly, in non-malignant disease, ideally to run alongside …

Depression can exacerbate symptoms associated with life-threatening illness and increase
disability and distress. In palliative care, depression occurs in a context of multiple …

The number of people in their last years of life with advanced chronic conditions, palliative
care needs, and limited life prognosis due to different causes including multi-morbidity …

Background: A multidisciplinary European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce was
established to scope the extent of and learn what facilitates and hinders the development of …

INTRODUCTION the number of people age 65 or older is set to increase from 524 million
worldwide in 2010 to 1.5 billion, or 16 percent of the world's population, in 2050 (1). Growth …

Introdução Os Cuidados Paliativos (CP) buscam oferecer uma melhor qualidade de vida
para pacientes com doenças em fase avançada. No entanto, há poucos dados sobre sua …

Abstract Background The Brazilian healthcare system offers universal coverage but lacks
information about how patients with PC needs are serviced by its primary care program …

Context Efforts in developing useful tools to properly identify the end-of-life trajectory of
patients with advanced medical diseases have been made, but the calibration and/or …

By the year 2020, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third leading
cause of death globally. While there have been consistent calls for increased palliative care …

There is an urgent need to guarantee quality and equity of care for all the patients eligible for
palliative care, from those who need a palliative care approach to those needing specialist …