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...In my 25 years of experience of palliative care in charity-run community and hospice-based charities, active treatment was used to good effect to provide a few quality weeks and months to those living with...
...Lilah Raptopoulos Anne retired recently after more than 45 years as a palliative care nurse. Her career has spanned ten nursing homes and hospices across the UK. She’s a pro....
...Only when she probed further did it become clear this entailed the withdrawal of fluid and nutrition. In fairness, the LCP was designed to bring hospice-style palliative care into NHS hospitals....
...“The more we realise that death is a very important part of life at an earlier age, the better we do at the end of life,” says Terrence Maag, medical director for home care, hospice and advance care planning...
...The scale of the pandemic and the speed at which Covid-19 can affect patients have forced community care workers, GPs and palliative carers to accelerate difficult conversations on death and end-of-life...
...On the evening of October 23, my mother passed away peacefully after 10 days of palliative care, surrounded by her children and her beloved carer Beverly in the familiar surroundings of her room at Bridgeside...
...when refined and adapted by the great chemical companies on which our palliative care and survival depend....
...(fastFT) Food for thought The best place to die The UK has topped a quality-of-death index, which measured the level of palliative care in 80 countries around the world....
...Hermione Elliott, a former nurse, midwife and counsellor who specialised in palliative care, working with terminally ill people at home and in hospices, pioneered a UK training course for people who want...
...Less than half of paediatric oncology units in low and medium income countries provide palliative care, according to a survey in 58 countries at the start of the decade....
...four-legged wards....
...In the UK, Lancaster University Management School is delivering a customised programme for the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, on reflective leadership for clinicians and directors in the hospice sector...
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