Destitute and dying: interventions and models of palliative and end of life care for homeless adults – a systematic review ...

Correspondence to Dr Kirsty Boyd, Palliative Care Service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; kirsty.boyd{at}ed.ac.uk Objective To refine and evaluate a ...

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 ...

Approaches using digital technologies to support advance care planning (ACP) and care coordination are being used in palliative and end of life care. While providing opportunities to facilitate ...

Introduction Primary care has a central role in palliative and end of life care: 45.6% of deaths in England and Wales occur under the care of primary care teams at home or in care homes. The Community ...

Background Undergraduate fourth year medical students attend hospices for two case discussion lecture days as part of a one-week palliative care placement. Prior informal student feedback suggested a ...

Background Anticipatory grief is the grieving process that can happen prior to a loss or bereavement experience (Dehpour & Kopffman. Aging Ment Health. 2023;27(1):110–123). Lindemann describes ...

Storytelling is a powerful tool to inform and engage audiences. One barrier to identifying and sharing them is a clinical mindset of ‘holding’ a patient’s story. A need to shift this perception of the ...

Background Communication in palliative care requires an intrinsically empathetic approach. Good communication is known to improve psychological wellbeing, strengthen relationships and increase ...

Objective To determine the feasibility of conducting creative writing workshops (CWW) for patients with cancer to promote improvement in mood. Method We piloted a prospective study to determine the ...

Background Living with an incurable illness can force people into poverty at a vulnerable time. A population health survey concluded that free or affordable local facilities/activities would help ...

Background All Healthcare professionals including nurses should be competent to provide the best end of life care. We developed Professional Development in Palliative and End of Life Care Programme to ...