Literature Search - Issue No. 10 (Jan 2024)

The primary focus of this literature search is selected articles, etc., on key issues in end-of-life care for which the full text is available online. Added, however, are a few noteworthy articles, etc., but for which access to the full text is available only with a subscription or for a one-time fee for the article in question.1 Also listed are a few postings of special interest on key websites that serve the hospice and palliative care communities-at-large, and selected news media reports. The next listing will be published in approximately four to six weeks.

Articles of particular interest.

Libraries in educational institutions and medical centres may have a subscription to the journal in question and hold a photocopying licence, which may facilitate cost-effective access.

Access to Care

  1. “We're onto something here!”: Clinician perspectives of a pilot program to increase palliative care access in an urban skilled nursing facility,’ Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Posted online 4 January 2024. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)
  2. ‘National palliative care strategy in a conflict affected country: A Jordanian demonstration project,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 28 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)
  3. ‘Healthcare professionals’ perceived barriers in providing palliative care in primary care and nursing homes: A survey study,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 25 December 2023. Full text
  4. ‘Palliative care, homelessness, and restricted or uncertain immigration status,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 23 December 2023. Full text
  5. ‘Palliative care and end-of-life care in Latin America: A scoping review,’ Horizonte de Enfermería. Posted online 19 December 2023. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    Related:

    5.2 ‘Dimensions of suffering and the need for palliative care: Experiences and expectations of patients living with cancer and diabetes and their caregivers in Mexico – a qualitative study,’ BMJ Open. Posted online 14 December 2023. Full text

  6. ‘Remote symptom monitoring to enhance the delivery of palliative cancer care in low-resource settings: Emerging approaches from Africa,’ International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health. Posted online 17 December 2023. Full text 

    Related:

    6.2 ‘Palliative Care progress in Benin: A situation analysis using the WHO development indicators,’ Research Square. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

    6.3 ‘The acute needs for palliative care services in Ethiopia,’ Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2023;33(6):924-926. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    6.4 ‘Experiences of patients with advanced chronic disease transitioning to palliative care in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review,’ Rwanda Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences, 2023;6(3):411-422. Full text (click on pdf icon)

  7. ‘Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of barriers to cancer care delivery for American Indian, rural, and frontier populations,’ PEC Innovation. Posted online 17 December 2023. Full text
  8. ‘Perceived barriers and facilitators to good end-of-life care: Focusing on people with intellectual disabilities,’ Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Posted online 14 December 2023. Full text
  9. ‘Understanding the value of alleviating health-related suffering and palliative care centered in lived experience: The SAVE toolkit,’ Research Square. Posted online 7 December 2023. Full text 

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

  10. ‘Attitudes towards death and end-of-life care,’ Medicinska istaživanja, 2023;56(4):81-85. Full text

Education & Training

  1. ‘Practicalities of promoting practice-based learning in end of life care for care home staff: Lessons from “online” supportive conversations and reflection sessions,’ International Journal of Older People Nursing. Posted online 7 January 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Nursing students satisfaction and self-confidence with standardized patient palliative care simulation focusing on difficult conversations,’ Palliative & Supportive Care. Posted online 5 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    2.2 ‘Changes in care managers’ positive attitudes toward dying patients compared to that of nurses by one-day online advance care planning communication training,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full text

    2.3 ‘Long-term impact of the end-of-life care nursing education consortium on knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of Indian nurses working in non-palliative care settings: A KAP-GAP analysis,’ American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Posted online 3 January 2024. Full text

    2.4 ‘Building bridges of excellence: A comprehensive competence framework for nurses in hospice and palliative care – a mixed method study,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

  3. ‘Online learning in palliative care education of undergraduate medical students: A realist synthesis,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 25 December 2023. Full text 

    Related:

    3.2 ‘Palliative care: Perception of teaching and evaluation of concepts among medical undergraduates,’ Revista Bioética. Accessed online 21 December 2023. Full text

  4. ‘The development of an advanced diploma program for palliative care leaders in Chile,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 22 December 2023. Full text
  5. ‘Educational strategies in palliative care for healthcare professionals,’ Revista Bioética. Accessed online 21 December 2023. Full text

Essential Medicines

  1. ‘Palliative care bodies sound the alarm on opioid supply crisis,’ News GP (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners). Posted online 8 January 2024. Full text
  2. ‘The availability of essential medicines in primary health centres in Indonesia: Achievements and challenges across the archipelago,’ The Lancet. Posted online 8 January 2024. Full text 

    Related: 

    Website Postings of Interest: ‘The grateful leper and the miracle of morphine...,’ eHospice, 19 December 2023; ‘Ongoing pain medicine shortages risks quality of life for all Australians,’ Palliative Care Australia, 11 December 2023.

Policy & Practice

  1. ‘National Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care [n the U.S.],’ Medscape. Posted online 2 January 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Pilot implementation of the Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care (RUN-PC) triage tool,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 13 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

Research (Issues)

  1. ‘The role of specialty palliative care interdisciplinary team members in acute care decision support: A qualitative study protocol,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 3 January 2024. Full text
  2. ‘What’s in this for you? What’s in this for me?: A win-win perspective of involving study advisory committee members in palliative care research,’ Journal of Patient Experience. Posted online 2 January 2024. Full text
  3. ‘Patient and public involvement in international research: Perspectives of a team of researchers from six countries on collaborating with people with lived experiences of dementia and end of life,’ Health Expectations. Posted online 24 December 2023. Full text
  4. ‘Naming racism as a root cause of inequities in palliative care research: A scoping review,’ Research Square. Posted online 21 December 2023. Full text 

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

  5. ‘Methodological and ethical challenges in designing and conducting research at the end of life: A systematic review of qualitative and textual evidence,’ International Journal of Nursing Practice. Posted online 19 December 2023, Abstract (w. summary statement)
  6. ‘Hospices’ unanswered questions: Filling the research gaps,’ Health Affairs. Posted online 14 December 2023. Full text

Research (Protocols)

  1. ‘First steps towards the deinstitutionalization of older adults: A protocol for the implementation of a complex intervention,’ Revista Española de Geriatría Gerontología, 2024;59(2):101453. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)
  2. ‘A study protocol for e-PainSupport: The use of a digital application for reporting pain and pain management in home hospice,’ Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. Accessed online 30 December 2023. Full text
  3. ‘Testing a culturally tailored advance care planning intervention (MY WAY) for an American Indian tribe: Protocol for a quasi-experimental waitlist control design,’ JMIR Research Protocols. Posted online 29 December 2023. Full text
  4. ‘Increasing access to palliative care for patients with advanced cancer of African and Latin American descent: A patient-oriented community-based study protocol,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 20 December 2023. Full text
  5. ‘Supported: Supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care – qualitative study protocol,’ Plos One. Posted online 13 December 2023. Full text
  6. ‘Exploring primary care physicians’ experiences of language and cultural discordant care for linguistic minority patients at the end of life: A study protocol,’ International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text
  7. ‘The role of specialty palliative care interdisciplinary team members in acute care decision support: A qualitative study protocol,’ Research Square. Posted online 11 December 2023. Full text 

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

Of Related Interest

Identifying Patients with Palliative Care Needs

  1. ‘Understanding patient views and experiences of the IDENTIfication of PALLiative care needs (IDENTI-PALL): A qualitative interview study,’ British Journal of General Practice. Posted online 8 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    1.2 ‘Screening instruments for early identification of unmet palliative care needs: A systematic review and meta-analysis,’ BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Posted online 28 December 2023. Full text

Hospital Palliative Care Services

  1. ‘The influence of context on the implementation of integrated palliative care in an academic teaching hospital in South Africa,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 8 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    2.2 ‘Outpatient palliative care service involvement: A five-year experience from a tertiary hospital in Switzerland,’ Palliative Medicine Reports. Posted online 5 January 2024. Full text

    2.3 ‘How do you ethically integrate a GIP [General Inpatient] hospice service into the hospital?’ The Hospitalist. Posted online 2 January 2024. Full text

Technology

  1. ‘Virtual reality intervention as support to paediatric palliative care providers: A pilot study,’ Acta Pædiatrica. Posted online 7 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    3.2 ‘Mobile application-based communication facilitation platform for family members of critically ill patients: A randomized clinical trial,’ JAMA Network Open. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full text

    3.3 ‘The sound of grief: A critical discussion on the experience of creating and listening to the digitally reproduced voice of the deceived,’ Omega – Journal of Death & Dying. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full text

    3.4 ‘Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management,’ Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology. Posted online 28 December 2023. Full text

    3.5 ‘Resisting the (re-)medicalisation of dying and grief in the post-digital age: Natural language processing and qualitative analysis of data from internet support forums,’ Social Science & Medicine. Posted online 24 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    3.6 ‘Artificial intelligence decision support tools for end-of-life care planning conversations,’ Canadian Journal of Health Technologies, 2023;3(12):1-15. Full text

Community & Home-Based Palliative Care

  1. ‘Navigation programs to support community-dwelling individuals with life-limiting illness: Determinants of implementation,’ BMC Health Services Research. Posted online 6 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    4.2 ‘Palliative medicine specialist and general practitioner interactions: National survey,’ BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full text

    4.3 ‘From comfort zone to front-line care: Perspectives and reflections of community pharmacists entering home-based palliative care,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 3 January 2024. Full text

    4.4 ‘Unresolved palliative care needs of elderly non-cancer patients at home: A multicenter prospective study,’ Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. Posted online 22 December 2023. Full text

    4.5 ‘The family caregiver needs assessment questionnaire for home hospice care of the dying elderly in Mainland China: Tool development and psychometric evaluation,’ Healthcare. Posted online 19 December 2023. Full text

    N.B. This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal.

    4.6 ‘The work of palliative care from the perspectives of district nurses: A qualitative study,’ Journal of Advanced Nursing. Posted online 18 December 2023. Full text

    4.7 ‘Systemic strengths and needs in palliative home care: Exploring complexity,’ Revista Clínica Española (English Edition). Posted online 13 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    4.8 ‘Exploring the needs and coping strategies of family caregivers taking care of dying patients at home: A field study,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

    4.9 ‘Age-friendly communities: Are they also “friendly” for death, dying, grief, and bereavement?’ Canadian Journal on Aging. Posted online 11 December 2023. Full text

    4.10 ‘Compassionate interprofessional and interagency community: Palliative care,’ Hospice & Palliative Medicine International Journal, 2023;6(3):81-82. Full text

    4.11 ‘Enabling community: A missing link in establishing end-of-life care continuum,’

    EFI Journal, 2023;4(4):134-137. Full text

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘Desperate situation faced by family carers in the UK is unsustainable,’ eHospice, 25 December 2023.

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘Japan’s high hospital death rate: A case for home-care,’ BNN. Posted online 8 January 2024. Full text https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/health/japans-high-hospital-death-rate-a-case-for-home-care/; ‘Portugal among countries where fewer people die at home,’ Portugal Resident. Posted online 3 January 2024. Full text

Care Planning & Serious Illness Conversations

  1. ‘Relationship between implementation of systematic advance care planning and the quality of death among nursing home residents: A survey,’ Palliative Care & Social Practice. Posted online 6 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    5.2 ‘What clinicians and researchers should know about the evolving field of advance care planning: A Narrative review,’ Journal of General Internal Medicine. Posted online 2 January 2024. Full text

    5.3 ‘Navigating and communicating about serious illness and end of life,’ The New England Journal of Medicine. Posted online 20 December 2023. Full text (click on “get free access now”)

    5.4 ‘End-of-life care discussions with healthcare providers and dying experiences: A latent class analysis using the health and retirement study,’ Archives of Gerontology & Geriatrics. Posted online 18 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    5.5 ‘Application of motivational interviewing to group: Teaching advance care planning via group visits for clinical professionals,’ Patient Education & Counseling. Posted online 14 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    5.6 ‘Physicians’ perceptions of the implementation of the serious illness care program: A qualitative study,’ BMC Health Services Research. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

    5.7 ‘The role of patients’ stories in medicine: A systematic scoping review,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

    5.8 ‘Acceptability and usability of the planning advance care together (PACT) website for improving patients’ engagement in advance care planning,’ PEC Innovation. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘The language of hospice can help us get better at discussing death,’ Time (U.S.). Posted online 18 December 2023. Full text

    N.B. Commentary on ‘The words we die by,’ Social Science & Medicine. Accessed online 14 December 2023. Full text

COVID-19

  1. ‘Comparing quality indicator rates for home care clients receiving palliative and end-of-life care before and during the Covid-19 pandemic,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 5 January 2024. Full text

    Related:

    6.2 ‘The rise of home death in the COVID-19 pandemic: A population-based study of death certificate data for adults from 32 countries, 2012-2021,’ eClinicalMedicine (Part of The Lancet Discovery Science). Posted online 2 January 2024. Full text

    6.3 ‘Trends in utilisation of palliative care services in COVID-19 patients and their impact on hospital resources in the USA: Insights from the national inpatient sample,’ BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Posted online 22 December 2023. Full text

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘Compromised connections: The impact of COVID-19 on hospice care,’ Marie Curie (U.K.). Accessed online 16 December 2023.

End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care

  1. ‘Construction of hospice care evaluation system for terminally ill patients in ICU,’ Patient Preference & Adherence. Posted online 5 January 2024. Full text

Pediatric Palliative Care

  1. ‘The psychological experience of grandparents: Proposal of a qualitative clinical assessment tool in pediatric palliative care,’ Clinics & Practice. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full text 

    Related:

    8.2 ‘Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy in terminally ill children with cancer: A position statement by the PHO chapter of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics,’ Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full Text

    8.3 ‘International perspectives on pediatric palliative care: Mexico,’ Current Problems in Pediatric & Adolescent Health Care. Posted online 3 January 2024. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    8.4 ‘Gaps in pediatric oncologic end-of-life care as recounted by the bereaved parents in Israel,’ Journal of Pediatric Nursing. Posted online 31 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    8.5 ‘Approaches to the development of pediatric palliative care,’ Rehabilitation & Recreation. Posted online 29 December 2023. Full text (click on pdf/English icon)

    8.6 ‘Pediatric palliative care across continents: Communication and shared-decision-making,’ Current Problems in Pediatric & Adolescent Health Care. Posted online 27 December 2023. Full text

    8.7 ‘Enhancing the adult and paediatric palliative care system: Spanish professionals’ and family caregivers’ suggestions for comprehensive improvement,’ Healthcare. Posted online 27 December 2023. Full text

    8.8 ‘Shared decision-making in pediatric palliative care,’ Current Problems in Pediatric & Adolescent Health Care. Posted online 26 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    8.9 ‘Assessing the suitability of the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT-Paediatric) for use with parents of children with a life-limiting condition: A qualitative secondary analysis,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 23 December 2023. Full text

    8.10 ‘Truth-telling to the seriously ill child: Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs,’ Nursing Ethics. Posted online 21 December 2023. Full text

    8.11 ‘Evaluating quality of life in pediatric palliative care: A cross-sectional analysis of children’s and parents’ perspectives,’ European Journal of Pediatrics. Posted online 19 December 2023. Full text

    8.12 ‘Quality of care in pediatric palliative care: A scoping review,’ Children. Posted online 13 December 2023. Full text

    8.13 ‘International perspectives on pediatric palliative care: Argentina,’ Current Problems in Pediatric & Adolescent Health Care. Posted online 12 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    8.14 ‘The funding of specialised paediatric palliative care in Switzerland: A conceptualisation and modified Delphi study on obstacles and priorities,’ Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023;153(12). Full text (click on pdf icon)

    Website Postings of Intertest: ‘Paediatric palliative care,’ 1 eHospice, 1 January 2024; ‘The impact of palliative care in paediatrics,’ eHospice, 13 December 2023; ‘Postcode lottery in NHS funding for children who need hospice care,’ 2 Together For Short Lives, 13 December 2023

    1. ‘A good death in the child with life shortening illness: A qualitative multiple-case study,’ Palliative Medicine, 2021;35(10):1878-1888. Full text
    2. ‘The deep disparity in NHS funding for children who need hospice care: A report by Together for Short Lives.’ Download

Spiritual Care

  1. ‘Deconstructing spiritual care: Discursive underpinnings within palliative care research,’ Nursing Inquiry. Posted online 4 January 2024. Full text

Neuropalliative Care

  1. ‘Parkinson disease patients’ and care partners’ perceptions of palliative care,’ Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. Posted online 28 December 2023. Full text

Public Awareness & Understanding

  1. ‘Public awareness of advance care planning and hospice palliative care: A nationwide cross-sectional study in Korea,’ BMC Palliative Care. Posted online 27 December 2023. Full text 

    Related:

    11.2 ‘Palliative care: “It is OK to be not OK,”‘ Journal of Palembang Nursing Studies. Posted on 25 December 2023. Full text

    11.3 ‘Palliative care is not (necessarily) the end,’ Pharmacy Times. Posted online 15 December 2023. Full text

    11.4 ‘Improving knowledge of palliative care in rural South Dakota through community education,’ Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care. Posted online 11 December 2023. Full text (click on pdf icon)

    11.5 ‘Caregiver knowledge about palliative care in King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study,’ Cureus. Posted online 10 December 2023. Full text

    Website Posting of Interest: ‘Raising our voices for better palliative care,’ University of Melbourne (Australia). Posted online 18 December 2023

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘What is hospice care? 6 myths about this end-of-life option,’ National Public Radio (U.K.). Posted online 28 December 2023. Full text

Economics of Palliative & End-of-Life Care

  1. ‘Palliative care costs in different ambulatory-based settings: A systematic review,’ PharmacoEconomics. Posted online 27 December 2023. Full text 

    Related:

    12.2 ‘Estimating the costs of end-of-life care in patients with advanced cancer from the perspective of an insurance organization: A cross-sectional study in Iran,’ Value in Health Regional Issues. Accessed online 27 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references)

    12.3 ‘Methodological challenges and potential solutions for economic evaluations of palliative and end-of-life care: A systematic review,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 23 December 2023. Full text

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘“A no-brainer”: Inside the movement to promote hospice care as a cost-effective, compassionate alternative to overcrowded hospitals,’ The Hub (Canada). Posted online 18 December 2023. Full text

Oncology

  1. ‘Screening for palliative care need in oncology: Validation of patient-reported outcome measures,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 26 December 2023. Abstract (w. intro., section snippets, references) 

    Related:

    13.2 ‘How early should be “early integrated palliative care”?’ Supportive Care in Cancer. Posted online 19 December 2023. Full text

    13.3 ‘Barriers and facilitators to national guideline implementation for palliative cancer care in a Danish cross-sectoral healthcare setting: A qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ experiences,’ Psycho-Oncology. Posted online 11 December 2023. Full text

Death Pronouncement

  1. ‘Need for improvement in death pronouncements in palliative care units,’ Palliative Medicine Reports. Posted online 22 December 2023. Full text 

    Related:

    14.2 ‘How clinicians recognise people who are dying: An integrative review,’ International Journal of Nursing Studies. Posted online 21 December 2023. Full text

Cultural & Linguistic Diversity

  1. ‘Experiences of next-of-kin to foreign-born dying patients cared for in specialist palliative care: A qualitative study,’ Omega – Journal of Death & Dying. Posted online 21 December 2023. Full text 

    Related

    15.2 ‘The intersection of minority identity and palliative care nursing,’ Minority Nurse. Posted online 4 December 2023. Full text

    15.3 ‘Navigating cultural diversity and conversation barriers in palliative care: A mini review,’ Hospice & Palliative Medicine International Journal, 2023;6(3):74-79. Full text

Psychological & Psychotherapeutic Interventions

  1. ‘Positive psychology interventions in palliative care: Cui bono?’ Palliative & Supportive Care. Posted online 21 December 2023. Full text

Aged, Long-Term & Residential Care

  1. ‘The experiences of nursing managers in implementing palliative care in long-term care facilities,’ Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare. Posted online 15 December 2023. Full text

Dignity at the End of Life

  1. ‘A systematic scoping review on dignity assessment tools,’ Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. Posted online 12 December 2023. Full text

Publishing Matters

  1. ‘Predatory publishing in medical education: A rapid scoping review,’ BMC Medical Education. Posted online 5 January 2024. Full text
  2. ‘Librarian involvement in systematic reviews was associated with higher quality of reported search methods: A cross-sectional survey of authors from Vancouver, BC,’ Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Accessed online 7 December 2023. Abstract (w. highlights, “graphical’ abstract)

Website Postings of Interest 

Australia

  1. ‘Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care<>,’ Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care, 12 December 2023.

Canada

  1. ‘Non-physical suffering : An under-resourced and key role for hospice and palliative care social workers,’ Hospice Palliative Care Ontario, 20 December 2023. 

    N.B. Commentary on ‘Non-physical suffering: An under-resourced and key role for hospice and palliative care social workers,’ Journal of social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care. Posted online 10 November 2023. Abstract (w. link to references)

    Related:

    2.2 ‘The Framework on Palliative Care in Canada: Five years later – report on the state of palliative care in Canada,’ Government of Canada. Accessed 15 December 2023.

Ireland

  1. ‘All adult hospices to be State-funded from early next year,’ Irish Medical Times, 22 December 2023.

Singapore

  1. ‘Regardless of age,’ eHospice, 1 January 2024.

Taiwan

  1. ‘Thoughtful discernment about the true meaning of a good death,’ eHospice, 8 January 2024.

U.K.

  1. ‘Food banks and loneliness: Our new research reveals the reality for many at the end of life,’ Marie Curie, 21 December 2023.

    N.B. Commentary on ‘70 years of end-of-life care in the community,’ Marie Curie & The Queen’s Nursing Institute. Download

    Related:

    6.2 ‘Hospices in Scotland face collective deficit of £16 million,’ Hospice UK., 18 December 2023.

    6.3 ‘Surely considering digital belongings is just as important as physical belongings… Maybe even more so!’ European Association for Palliative Care, 12 December 2023.

    N.B. Author’s commentary on ‘A grounded theory study exploring palliative care healthcare professionals’ experiences of managing digital legacy as part of advance care planning for people receiving palliative care,’ Palliative Medicine. Posted online 23 August 2023. Full text

U.S.A.

  1. ‘Meeting palliative care needs in existing Medicaid programs,’ Center to Advance Palliative Care, 20 December 2023. 

    Related:

    7.2 ‘2023 NHPCO Facts & Figures Report now available,’ National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, 13 December 2023.

    News Media Report of Interest: ‘Local experts say number of people using hospices has decreased despite benefits,’ WFXR TV News (Roanoke, Virginia). Posted online 8 January 2024. Full text