Category Archive for: "palliative care"

Spiritual beliefs, practices, and needs at the end of life: Results from a New Zealand national hospice study

October 23, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

OBJECTIVE: International studies have shown that patients want their spiritual needs attended to at the end of life. The present authors developed a project to investigate people’s [...]
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The Business Case for Palliative Care: Translating Research into Program Development in the U.S.

October 23, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

Specialist palliative care (PC) often embraces a “less is more” philosophy that runs counter to the revenue-centric nature of most health care financing in the U.S. A special business [...]
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Fifteen-minute consultation: Not the whole story-considering children’s spirituality and advance care planning.

October 22, 2018 palliative care

In a society of diverse views, faiths and beliefs, what can paediatric palliative care contribute to our understanding of children’s spirituality? By failing to recognise and respond to [...]
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The spiritual concerns of people experiencing homelessness at the end of life.

October 22, 2018 palliative care

BACKGROUND:: Spiritual care is a fundamental component of holistic end-of-life (EoL) care. AIM:: To explore what is known about the spiritual concerns of people experiencing homelessness towards [...]
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The ‘safe death’: An ethnographic study exploring the perspectives of rural palliative care patients and family caregivers

October 21, 2018 palliative care

Background: In rural settings, relationships between place and self are often stronger than for urban residents, so one may expect that rural people would view dying at home as a major feature of [...]
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