This research was undertaken in order to seek a way of acknowledging and understanding
the lived experience of people giving and receiving palliative care. Utilising the World Health …

Our world is very noisy. It's the shrill sound of deafening music, the unbearable screams of
hysterical people, is the constant aggression to our ears coming from mobile commercial …

Background: In interactions between professional caregivers, patients and family members
at the end of life, silence often becomes more prevalent. Silence is acknowledged as …

At the end of life, silence often takes increasing prominence in caregiving encounters.
Valued in spiritual and religious traditions, silence lends itself to the spiritual and existential …

Background At the end of life silence seems to take increasing prominence in encounters
between professional caregivers, patients and their family members but its value as an …

Dame Cicely Saunders created the hospice movement to be a voice for the voiceless. Those
needing palliative care needed someone to speak for them and ensure they received the …

Towards the end of life, silence seems to take increasing prominence in caregiving
relationships. A complex phenomenon, silence has been less explored than verbal …

In trying to improve clinician communication skills, we have often heard clinicians at every
level admonished to “use silence,” as if refraining from talking will improve dialogue. Yet we …

Communication is an integral part of nursing practice—with patients and their relatives, other
nurses and members of the healthcare team, and ancillary staff. Through interaction with the …

Abramovic created the longest running tableau in history at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York City called “The Artist is Present.” For over 700 hours, she sat silently in a chair …