A palliative care service provider may add or decrease overall operational costs to the healthcare system. This study assessed the costs of managing respite care for children with life-limiting illness at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario…
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive, impairing, life-limiting disorder of childhood. Little is known about how siblings adapt to this. The aim of this study is to document psychosocial adjustment in siblings of patients with DMD.…
Despite the development and implementation of team training models in geriatrics and palliative care, little attention has been paid to the nature and process of teamwork. Geriatrics and palliative care in the clinical setting offer an…
This article discusses end-of-life issues in critically ill cancer patients. Since the majority of deaths will occur after limiting or withdrawing life support, focus should be given to ensuring that multidisciplinary family meetings are convened to…
Quality of life is a common phrase. The majority of human endeavours are ostensibly aimed at improving quality of life, whether for the individual or the community, and the concept ultimately informs most aspects of public policy and private…
In 2004-08 there were around 250 deaths each year of London residents aged 0-19 from causes likely to have required palliative care (excluding deaths under 28 days). Only 15% of the child deaths analysed occurred at home with the majority occurring…
Studies in hospices and nursing homes have shown that a number of different phenomena are associated with the mental states of the dying. In the days or weeks before death the dying person may have premonitions, often unrecognised, of their impending…
Quantum mechanics arose to explain 'wobbles' in predicted effects of Newtonian physics, such as the stability of electron orbitals. Similarly, scientifically verified phenomena in the field of neuroscience which contradict known theories of brain…
While we do not yet know how Nature is nonlocal, interdisciplinary research in the areas of physics, biophysics and neuroscience going back over 4 decades, reveals that Nature is nonlocal. Nonlocality appears to have been observed between human…
Background Recent discussions about health care reform have raised questions regarding the value of advance directives. Methods We used data from survey proxies in the Health and Retirement Study involving adults 60 years of age or older who had died…
This paper reports on a focus group study aimed at exploring the difficulties that palliative care healthcare professionals encounter while assessing the spiritual distress of their patients. Three focus groups were conducted in a hospice (n = 15).…
Welcome to the Canadian Directory of Hospice Palliative Care Services. This on-line directory has been designed to provide you with information on the availability of hospice palliative care services across Canada. Here you will find a listing of…
Objective To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients. Design Prospective randomised controlled trial. Setting Single centre study in a university hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Participants 309…
The objective of this study was to provide a preliminary description of trajectories of life-limiting conditions (LLCs) using qualitative experiential data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with families of children with LLCs, selected to…
Background: The opioid peptide beta-endorphin (beta-E) is synthesized and released in response to stressful stimuli as well as acute alcohol administration. The release of beta-E following exposure to an inescapable aversive situation may mediate…
The main objective of this review was to provide a quantitative and methodologically sound evaluation of existing treatments for bereavement and grief reactions in children and adolescents. Two meta-analyses were conducted: 1 on controlled studies…
Title: Pain in non-verbal children with severe multiple disabilities. A qualitative study of parents perceptions about pain in their non-verbal child with severe multiple disabilities, and how it affects activities of daily living in the family.…
Attention bias modification (ABM) is a newly emerging therapy for anxiety disorders that is rooted in current cognitive models of anxiety and in established experimental data on threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. This review describes the…
