Background Despite legal advancements like gay marriage, LGBTQ+ individuals often face significant barriers in accessing equitable end-of-life care, exacerbated by healthcare professionals’ limited ...

Symptom and problem burden, performance status and palliative care phases in specialist palliative care: cross-sectional analysis of care episodes ...

4 Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 5 Programme for Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Objective In Asian cultures, the belief ...

Objective To describe the strategies used by a collection of healthcare systems to apply different methods of identifying seriously ill patients for a targeted palliative care intervention to improve ...

Importance Limb spasticity is a common issue among stroke patients. Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) is recommended as an alternative therapy for managing upper limb spasticity ...

Objective Fan therapy is widely acknowledged as an essential component in the management of dyspnoea with numerous studies supporting its efficacy in alleviating dyspnoea among patients with chronic ...

Objectives To identify end-of-life preferences of people with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to compare characteristics between those who wish to discuss the end-of-life and ...

Objectives To examine whether use of a hand-held fan (‘fan’) improves breathlessness and increases physical activity. Methods A secondary exploratory analysis using pooled data from the fan arms of ...

Background The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines state that palliative care options for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) should be discussed. Aims To investigate ...

Investing in your brand and building a strong brand strategy, which is aligned to your vision and mission, is essential to the overall success of a charity. There are around 168,500 charities in the ...

Background Much deep learning is about thinking, talking, reflecting and shaping ideas through interactions with others. ‘Death cafes’ are examples of modified ‘World Café’ methods designed to create ...

Objective In a cluster-randomised controlled trial of early palliative care (EPC) in advanced cancer, EPC was robustly associated with increased patient satisfaction with care. The present study ...