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... Exposure to End-of-life Care Like many physicians, my exposure to end-of-life care was at best modest during my medical training and residency. In my case it was quite eclectic and spanned a number of...

... symptoms do not impair daily functioning. Our research was conducted in three stages: initial design using best available evidence, a feasibility test, and a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). Our...

... reactions are listed. For many lay people this causes a dilemma. If the family member concludes that the medication is “too risky” that may impede proper medication therapies, unless the physician is...

... and lack of awareness of what palliative care can offer have also contributed to ongoing episodes of poor dying that further fuel these fears. Another argument used to advocate for PAD is the duty of...

... services offered to patients at the Baycrest Health Science's geriatric palliative care unit, to describe patients and their response to the treatment.

... regarding this vexing clinical problem. Therefore, we conducted a study to help examine and describe the meanings family members ascribe to decreased intake and weight loss, the behaviors these symptoms...

... that the recipient’s illness is no longer required to be deemed incurable. Palliative care is now described as an approach applying to “life-threatening illness”, and “applicable early in the course of...

A research poster for healthcare professionals describing the results of a study about whether or not dying people voiced a preferred place of where to die during the last month of life.

... our dance floor, but is not appropriate on theirs. Conclusion 'Bounded intimacy' is a phrase that describes quite beautifully the tension between the intimacy and shared humanity that so often characterize...

... increased emotional distress (4). Tools that monitor individual distress levels are essential when designing treatment plans tailored to patients’ needs. These include measures of physical symptoms,...