Speech therapists and audiologists (ST&As) may encounter patient death and dying in their
professional practice. However, there appears to be a dearth of research internationally and …

Background Speech–language therapists and audiologists (SLT&As) may encounter
difficulties when confronted with patient death and dying, which may conflict with their moral …

Speech therapy interventions may be influenced by how one thinks, feels, and talks about
death and dying. The literature suggests that the (future) speech therapist should learn how …

Background: Formal training in dealing with death and dying issues is not a standard
content area in communication sciences and disorders programmes' curricula. At the same …

Background: Empirical studies on healthcare personnel indicate that professionals'
experiences with dying and death become silenced and unutterable within the healthcare …

Communication is an integral part of the medical assistance in dying assessment process in
Canada, as reflected by the legislation of Bill C-14 (2016), provincial and hospital policies …

Most deaths now occur in medical or skilled nursing settings. This brings speech-language
pathologists, and other professionals, in close contact with clients who face death. While it …

The purpose of the study was to obtain information of speech-language pathologists'
experiences with the death of a patient. Three hundred sixty-five subjects who work primarily …

Despite agreement that end-of-life conversations should happen early on in the illness
trajectory, it is widely acknowledged that healthcare practitioners often engage in these …

Introduction Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) traverses challenging and emotionally
overwhelming territories: Health Care Providers (HCP) across jurisdictions bridge the divide …