Palliative Care - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Stopping eating and drinking.

30 Aug 2009 Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, in which death occurs within one to three weeks of beginning the fast, is increasingly explored in the literature and mainstream media as an option to be discussed with "decisionally capable," suffering ... Read more...

'A bed in the middle of nowhere': parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis.

16 Aug 2009 As populations age and chronic conditions become more prevalent, an individual's ability to choose the location of their end-of-life care and death is increasingly considered important in the provision of good healthcare, with home implied as the ... Read more...

Malignant fungating wounds: key symptoms and psychosocial issues.

30 Jul 2009 Living with a malignant wound can be an overwhelming experience for the patient and their family, yet the psychosocial effects are often overlooked at assessment. If care is to be holistic, then these issues must be ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Palliative Care - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• 'A bed in the middle of nowhere': parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis. 16 Aug 2009
• Malignant fungating wounds: key symptoms and psychosocial issues. 30 Jul 2009
• Core attitudes of professionals in palliative care: a qualitative study. 30 Jul 2009
• Palliative respite services using nursing staff reduces hospitalization of patients and improves acceptance among carers. 30 Jul 2009
• The implementation of an end-of-life integrated care pathway in a Chinese population. 30 Jul 2009
• Extending knowledge of terror management theory to improve palliative nursing care. 30 Jul 2009
• Inner power, physical strength and existential well-being in daily life: relatives' experiences of receiving soft tissue massage in palliative home care. 30 Jul 2009
• Family predictors of psychosocial outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese cancer patients in palliative care: living and dying with the "support paradox". 29 Jun 2009
• Case study: trisomy 13, a palliative care case. 29 Jun 2009
• Palliative care in Lebanon: knowledge, attitudes and practices. 29 Jun 2009
• Quality-of-life assessment in a palliative care setting in Germany: an outcome evaluation. 29 Jun 2009
• Developing meaningful learning experiences in palliative care nursing education. 29 Jun 2009
• Suffering and healing--our core business. 29 Jun 2009
• Palliative care for children: preparing undergraduate nursing students. 29 Jun 2009
• [Pain and conflicts: a comparative approach and implications for end-of-life quality of care] 29 Jun 2009
• Not so routine follow-up. 29 Jun 2009
• Journeying with Alice: some things I don't know for certain. 9 Jun 2009
• Staff grief and support systems for Japanese health care professionals working in palliative care. 30 May 2009
• Palliative care: a need for a family systems approach. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Palliative Care'

Definition: Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)

Descriptor UI: D010166

Alternative terms: Palliative Care; Care, Palliative; Therapy, Palliative; Palliative Therapy; Palliative Treatment; Palliative Treatments; Treatment, Palliative; Treatments, Palliative; Palliative Surgery; Surgery, Palliative; Palliative Medicine; Medicine, Palliative;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.666; N02.421.585.666;

History Note: 96; was PALLIATIVE TREATMENT 1964-95 (Prov 1964-65)

Technical Notes: = relief without cure; coord IM with disease /ther or /surg or /drug ther or other specific qualif (IM); consider also PAIN /ther