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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Microfluidic Point-of-Care Devices
The provision of healthcare has been revolutionized by the development of microfluidic point-of-care (POC) devices as revolutionary tools in medical...
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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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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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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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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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It’s Not Always Easy: Cancer Survivorship Care in Primary Care Settings
By 2040, an anticipated 26.1 million people with a history of cancer will be part of the healthcare system. The purpose of this study was to explore...
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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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Genomes in clinical care
In the era of precision medicine, genome sequencing (GS) has become more affordable and the importance of genomics and multi-omics in clinical care...
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Neuroendocrinology of Human Cooperation and Parental Care
Human parental care appears to rely on the same neuroendocrine mechanisms that support parental care in other species, and other types of human...
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Patient Understanding of Chemotherapy and Goals of Care as Provided by Different Care Team Members
Chemotherapy can be challenging and overwhelming for patients, but when patients are knowledgeable about chemotherapy, their comfort level, overall...
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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....