Objective To evaluate the care of patients dying in hospital without support from specialists in palliative care (SPC), better understand their needs and factors influencing their care. Methods ...

Home-based oncology palliative care is racing against time. In Florence, Italy—a city with approximately 364 073 inhabitants in 2024, with 990 527 in its metropolitan area1—a resolute team of four ...

Background The advantages of timely prescribing for palliative patients is well documented (NICE. Care of dying adults in the last days of life. [NG31], 2015; NIHR. Health Social Care Serv Res.

Objective Hospice at Home (HAH) services aim to enable patients to be cared for and die at home, if that is their choice and achieve a ‘good death’. A national survey, in 2017, aimed to describe and ...

Objectives Facial airflow from a hand-held fan (fan) hastens recovery from exertional breathlessness. We aimed to determine the effect of different airflow speeds on recovery from exertional ...

Results A total of 109 participants with a mean age of 66±5.3 years were included in this study. The Jamar Plus+ digital dynamometer recorded significantly higher handgrip strength measurements ...

Methods We used a participatory research approach to refine the 2010 Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) and evaluate its use in clinical practice. We conducted an ongoing peer ...

Purpose Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) plays a crucial role in its management. This review summarizes ...

Background Therapeutic benefits of gardens, gardening and nature are well documented being utilised in health and community settings (Diamant, Waterhouse. Br J Occup Ther. 2010; 73 (2): 84–88). The ...

Anaemia, and iron deficiency in the absence of anaemia, is associated with a variety of symptoms including weakness, cognitive impairment, fatigue, tachycardia and dyspnoea. Despite the many potential ...

Current lethal combinations and doses of drugs used in physician-assisted dying/suicide are untested, unlicensed and unregulated, with little pharmacological understanding of efficacy and safety at ...

Objective Cachexia and nutritional problems play a major role in palliative care. Artificial nutrition such as parenteral nutrition is common but its role and indications in terminal patients remain ...