There is currently growing recognition of the complex care needs of patients with life-limiting
conditions and their family members, prompting the need to revisit the goals of medicine …

Background: Public health and palliative care are both broad disciplines with blurred
boundaries. There is growing support for an alignment of palliative care to public health …

Worldwide, more than 50 million people die each year and it is estimated on the basis of the
conditions leading to death that up to 60% of them could benefit from some form of palliative …

Populations around the world are ageing rapidly. More people survive to older ages, suffer
from multiple chronic conditions, and will need some form of advanced care towards the end …

The palliative and end-of-life care movement worldwide has been a success story in many
respects. Palliative care services exist in many countries throughout the world and are …

1. Background More than 50 million people die throughout the world each year. The majority–
four fifths–of these deaths are in developing countries. HIV has increased the number of …

The past two decades have witnessed dramatic advances in palliative and end-of-life care
research with increased understanding of the burden of life-limiting diseases on patients …

Background: Consumer experience of palliative care has been inconsistently and selectively
investigated. Methods: People in Western Australia who had experienced a life limiting …

Background Much of what we understand about the design of healthcare systems to support
care of the dying comes from our experiences with providing palliative care for dying cancer …

This book provides a wide range of information to help societies to plan, organize, and
provide appropriate care for the growing numbers of older people living and dying with …