When the small things become extraordinarily important… When someone has an incurable disease like advanced cancer or motor neurone disease, they experience many changes, one of which is functional decline. Although functional... Read more... 18/11/2016 | Health Professionals | Allied Health Tags: Occupational Therapy Views: 1809
Lifting weights and spirits! Move it or lose it, as the saying goes, is relevant to the field of palliative care. In fact, evidence suggests that up to 30% of muscle weakness in advanced illness can be due... Read more... 11/11/2016 | Health Professionals | Allied Health Tags: Physiotherapy Views: 1267
Learn more on end-of-life care – free and peer reviewed Let’s be frank, end-of-life care can be tricky. Yes, dying is normal, but it hasn’t been a major focus in the acute hospital systems. Health care... Read more... 25/10/2016 | Health Professionals | Acute Care Tags: End-of-Life Care | End-of-Life Essentials Views: 1266
Carers and Online Health Information National Carers Week provides us all with an opportunity to stop and think about the care that is needed by palliative care patients and that is given by carers to someone with... Read more... 21/10/2016 | Community | Patients and Carers Tags: Accessing services and support Views: 1148