Palliative medicine
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Palliative medicine · Oct 2015
The adolescent's experience when a parent has advanced cancer: A qualitative inquiry.
Parental cancer is a stressful experience for young people, constituting a potential threat to physical and mental health and normative development. Currently, there is insufficient information describing the sources and nature of this distress during advanced parental cancer, especially concerning families with adolescent children. ⋯ Study findings shed light on how adolescents self-manage their parent's advanced cancer and work to delimit the illness even as they are aware of its constant presence. Future research and intervention studies are needed to support and add to the adolescents' self-management strategies to weave a normal life for themselves while in the throes of the cancer's uncertainty and challenges with family communication.
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Palliative medicine · Oct 2015
Bereaved carers' accounts of the end of life and the role of care providers in a 'good death': A qualitative study.
The way that people die is particularly important to those who are left behind and this memory is not limited to the moment of death, but encompasses the entire end-of-life phase. While a number of attributes for a 'good death' have been identified, less is known about how care providers feature within these conceptualisations. ⋯ Care providers played a much wider role in social aspects of care at the end of life than previously considered.
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Palliative medicine · Oct 2015
Letter Case ReportsInnovative solution for portable suction machine.
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Palliative medicine · Oct 2015
Editorial CommentPalliative care in hospital: Why is it so difficult?