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Palliative Care and Dementia
Palliative care is an important and relevant approach for people with dementia. Integrating its principles in the care for them and their family...
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Nursing and Palliative Care
Exemplary nursing is integral to meeting the growing demand for palliative care. Driven by population aging and the increasing burden of chronic,...
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Spirituality in Palliative Care
Patients who are confronted with a life-threatening disease may experience the limits of their existence. In many patients, this confrontation...
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Advance Care Planning in Palliative Care
Advance care planning is a person-centered process to enable a person to express their preferences for future health care. Advance care planning is...
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A survey of genetic and palliative care health professionals’ views of integrating genetics into palliative care
Genetic counselling and testing have utility for people with palliative care needs and their families. However, genetic and palliative care health...
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Palliative Care and Neurodegenerative Diseases
There is increasing awareness of the multiple needs of people with neurodegenerative disease and palliative care is able to help effectively in the...
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Approach and Nature of Palliative Care
Caring for people who are near the end of life has a relatively short timeframe as a specialist health care activity. In this chapter, the history of...
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Palliative Care and Stroke
There have been significant advances in the prevention and management of stroke over the last few decades. Despite these important developments,...
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Accessing Palliative Care: Challenges and Opportunities
Access to palliative services is significant issue facing policymakers around the globe. Much of this discussion is centered on the important...
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Dietetics and Nutrition in Palliative Care
Good nutritional care is a fundamental component of palliative care provision. Managing issues associated with eating and drinking, weight loss, and...
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Family-Focused Palliative Care
A family-focused care approach in palliative care recognizes the fundamental role of families in contributing to the care of people with...
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Global Aspects of Palliative Care
In this chapter, we look at the growth of modern palliative care globally from its humble beginnings to finally becoming part of mainstream health...
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Constipation, Diarrhea, and Intestinal Obstruction in Palliative Care
The symptoms of bowel function, including constipation, diarrhea, and bowel obstructions, are problems that commonly affect palliative care patients....
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Self-Care of Health Professionals in a Palliative Care Environment
Working in palliative care can be intensely demanding yet enormously rewarding. To enable health professionals to actively engage in this field of...
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Wound Management in Palliative Care
Wounds are a significant issue in palliative care, and to deliver the best wound management, it is essential to understand the principles of wound...
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Organization of Palliative Care in Different Parts of the World
Palliative care has developed rapidly and heterogeneously in the past decade around the globe. In this chapter, we present an overview of palliative...
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The Management of Neurological Symptoms in Palliative Care
Neurological disease is a major cause of disability and death across the world. There is increasing evidence that palliative care is effective in...
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Palliative Care in Chronic Illness and Multimorbidity
Extended chronic phases of life-limiting illness and increasing multimorbidity present growing challenges that require a new approach to healthcare....
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Principles of Palliative Care in the Context of Survivorship
Potential reductions in perceived quality of life (QoL) are associated with the diagnosis of cancer and the consequences of its treatment. The notion...
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Opioids in Palliative Care
Palliative carePalliative care is an essential part of the right to health of all human beings. This medical specialty aims to improve the quality of...