Category Archive for: "palliative care"

Honoring thy parents: applying the spiritual domain in palliative care decision making

December 3, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary approach to caring for individuals and families who are suffering with serious illness. Medical and psycho-social-spiritual symptoms and needs are assessed [...]
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Cultural competence and end-of-life care: Religion, spirituality and health care decision-making

December 3, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

The changing demographic of the U.S. population has shed new light on the importance of providing all patients with the highest standard of care possible. An increase in the number of [...]
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Employing imaginative rationality: using metaphor when discussing death

December 3, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

The prevalence of metaphors in medicine is widely acknowledged. In a qualitative study exploring expectations of longevity, we observed repeated recourse to the imaginative rationality provided [...]
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How Community Clergy Provide Spiritual Care: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Clergy End-of-Life Education

November 27, 2018 end of life, hospice, palliative care

Context: Community-based clergy are highly engaged in helping terminally ill patients address spiritual concerns at the end of life (EOL). Despite playing a central role in EOL care, clergy [...]
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Spiritual and Religious Coping of Medical Decision Makers for Hospitalized Older Adult Patients

November 27, 2018 palliative care

Background: Critically ill adult patients who face medical decisions often delegate others to make important decisions. Those who are authorized to make such decisions are typically family [...]
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