Abstract Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) are frequently present in the general
population as patients age with approximately a third of individuals experiencing LUTS …

Background Understanding patient perceptions of their spiritual needs when approaching
the end of life is essential to support the delivery of patient-centred care. Aim To conduct a …

Background Attention to the existential dimension of an individual's experience during
serious illness is important. However, existential concerns continue to be poorly defined in …

Objectives Fear of death and dying is common in patients with advanced cancer, but can be
difficult to address in clinical conversations. We aimed to show that the experience of death …

Birth and death are both fundamental human experiences. The end of life has been a major
topic in philosophical, psychological, and sociological debates. Meanwhile, the beginning of …

Individual adaptation at the end of life may be characterised by how patients fluctuate in their
orientation towards losses and death or engagement in meaningful activities in daily life. To …

Objective To explore how patients with advanced cancer, their families, and palliative care
clinicians communicate about existential experience during palliative care conversations …

Background: Communication about prognosis is a key ingredient of effective palliative care.
When patients with advanced cancer develop increased prognostic understanding, there is …

While the richness of Heideggerian philosophy is attractive as a healthcare research
framework, its density means authors rarely utilise its fullest possibilities as an hermeneutic …

Not all physicians readily discuss death with their terminal patients. To explore whether
physicians discuss dying with their terminal patients and to pursue an in-depth …