Objective: Social media, web and mobile technologies are increasingly used in healthcare
and directly support patient-centered care. Patients benefit from disease self-management …

The elderly have the ethical and legal equivalence of younger adults, yet are treated
differently by society. Numerous recent reports have exposed poor inpatient care resulting in …

Recent progress in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and
cognitive science1 has led to a growing debate concerning the use of these technologies to …

The article presents a study that examined the physical complications of alcohol
dependence among the elderly. It cites the growing number of people seeking physical and …

Palliative care and end-of-life (EOL; also called “hospice”) care are two similar yet distinct
approaches that are used to improve individuals' comfort and/or quality of life. Speech …

Much of a person's encounter with orthodox healthcare can be conceived as a journey,
especially in hospitals where the common reference to clinical pathways speaks for itself …

Le souhait de vaincre la mort était central aux aspirations des fondateurs de la science
moderne. Enracinée dans le devoir moral qui nous oblige à retarder la mort quand cela est …