Background Traditionally, palliative care has focused on patients suffering from life-
threatening somatic diseases such as cancer or progressive neurological disorders. In …

Psychiatry today is mainly practised within a curative framework. However, many mental
disorders are persistent and negatively affect quality of life as well as life expectancy. This …

Persons with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) make up a vulnerable group within
mental healthcare and society. Not only do they suffer from long-term, serious psychiatric …

Approximately 6% of the population suffers from severe persistent mental illness (SPMI):
mental illness that is chronic or recurrent, requires ongoing intensive psychiatric treatment …

Background As a significant proportion of patients receiving palliative care suffer from states
of anxiety, depression, delirium, or other mental symptoms, psychiatry and palliative care …

People with a mental illness have an excess mortality, a reduced life expectancy and die
from ten to fifteen years earlier than the general population In the face of such sobering facts …

Even with optimal treatment, some persons with severe and persistent mental illness do not
achieve a level of mental health, psychosocial functioning and quality of life that is …

Persons with mental disorders who are resistant to evidence‐based treatment can be
referred to as patients with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). Some patients with …

Background Some patients develop severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) which is
therapy-refractory. The needs of these patients sometimes remain unmet by therapeutic …

Palliative care psychiatry is an emerging subspecialty field at the intersection of Palliative
Medicine and Psychiatry. The discipline brings expertise in understanding the psychosocial …