Less can be more: Researching non-beneficial treatment at the end-of-life Advances in medicine mean health care professionals can prolong life, yet some treatments have a low chance of providing tangible benefits to some patients, can result in a... Read more... 23/07/2019 | Health Professionals | Acute Care | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Research Views: 2206
The Advance Project – supporting a team approach to advance care planning and... General practices provide ongoing care for a large number of patients with chronic, progressive, and eventually fatal illnesses, and so have an essential role in providing... Read more... 28/05/2019 | Health Professionals | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Education and training Views: 2022
Trajectories of functional decline at the end of life. What do they tell us? It is uncertain how each of us will die and how we will experience the declining capacity to manage everyday activities as we approach death. Dr Deidre Morgan from Flinders... Read more... 16/04/2019 | Evidence | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Research Views: 2999
Dancing Between Two Rooms: Social Workers Engaging with People as they Live with Dying Rapport is an essential ingredient of quality palliative care. What is important to the person as a human being, not as a “sufferer of terminal illness”, will shape... Read more... 19/03/2019 | Health Professionals | Allied Health | Specialist Palliative Care Tags: Social work Views: 2529