Introduction Resilience based supervision (RBS) is underpinned by the principles of compassion-focused therapy (Gilbert, 2010), which maintains behaviours are motivated by three emotional systems: ...

Background The paucity of empirical research examining complementary medicine (CM) use in palliative care in France compared with other countries results in a gap in scientific knowledge. This study ...

Marie Curie (March 2012) promotes senior HCAs roles within palliative care services, providing a robust service dealing with challenges of crisis and avoiding hospital admission for patients with life ...

Joint Research Unit in ICT applied to reengineering socio-sanitary process; Departament de Salut Valencia La Fe; Joint Research Unit in ICT applied to reengineering socio-sanitary process; ...

Background Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, and place additional strains on end-of-life care services and users. Although end-of-life and palliative care are considered ...

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 ...

Objectives Advance care planning (ACP) can be a way to meet patients’ end-of-life preferences and enhance awareness of end-of-life care. Thereby it may affect actual place of death (APOD) and decrease ...

Background Understanding how end of life care preferences evolve over time is important for valid and dynamic Advance Care Planning. This is particularly relevant for older people whose preferences ...

Correspondence to Professor Joachim Cohen, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie, Brussel 1090, Belgium; jcohen{at}vub.be If you wish to reuse ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason W Boland, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; Jason.Boland{at}hyms.ac.uk Objectives There is increased interest in cannabinoids for cancer pain ...

Introduction Treatment escalation plans (TEP) are a tool to promote advance care planning, appropriate decision making and good communication between professionals, patients and carers, in line with ...