Equipe mobile de soins palliatifs sur le C.H....

Article indépendant | LAVAL, Guillemette | InfoKara | n°30

Equipe mobile de soins palliatifs sur le C.H....

Article indépendant | LAVAL, Guillemette | InfoKara | n°30

Le fonctionnement interdisciplinaire en équip...

Article indépendant | ROISIN, Danielle | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE | n°3 | vol.1

Cet article illustre les avantages et les difficultés d'un travail à la fois pluridisciplinaire et interdisciplinaire au sein d'une équipe mobile de soins palliatifs. Il décrit les modalités mises en place pour un fonctionnement a...

Psychological ideas in palliative care : dist...

Article indépendant | STRACHAN, Jenny | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE | n°1 | vol.25

In the seventh article in our series ‘Psychology in palliative practice’, Jenny Strachan looks at how distress, a common phenomenon at the end of life, affects the psychological well-being of patients receiving palliative care and...

Human rights in end-of life-care : implementa...

Article indépendant | GRAVES, Jacqui | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE | n°1 | vol.25

A human rights approach to end-of-life care supports health and social care practitioners in making balanced, and often difficult, decisions with people at the end of life, in order to make personalised care a reality. The approac...

Elisabeth Earnshaw-Smith : discovering people...

Article indépendant | OLIVIERE, David | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE | n°1 | vol.25

Elisabeth Earnshaw-Smith became the first director of social work at St Christopher's Hospice, London, in 1979, and introduced a family approach in psychosocial care that has now travelled the world. Her pioneering work, which was...

Barriers to palliative care for people with s...

Article indépendant | JERWOOD, Jed | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE | n°1 | vol.25

Objective: People with severe mental illness (SMI) have a life expectancy 10–20 years lower than that of the general population. There is limited published research concerning the end-of-life care needs of people with SMI. This st...

The dementia patient’s pathway through the sp...

Article indépendant | KELLY, Jacinta | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE | n°1 | vol.25

Introduction: Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) at the end of life is much more available than it was 50 years ago. However, there is increasing evidence that patients with diseases other than cancer have difficulty accessing this ...