Summary Digest for Palliative Care Professionals: December 2024
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December is a time to reflect on the year gone by. You’ve all worked hard. Perhaps at some point in 2024, you opened the PACED digest only to close it again because you didn’t have time, or planned to read it later, and it got lost along the way. We hope you can take a break during the holiday season. If you feel like reading something engaging about palliative care, take a look at our year-end digest. We’ve compiled all the articles we recommended throughout the year and categorised them for your convenience. Happy holidays, dear friends, and thank you for being with us!

If you would like to continue any of the topics below in a discussion or webinar, please feel free to contact us at info@paced.org.uk.

  • Paediatric Palliative Care

    Place of Death for a Terminally Ill Child. Is There a Choice and How Is the Decision Made?
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    Usage of Cooling Devices After Patient Death in Paediatric Palliative Care: the Experience of the UK
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    How to Stop Needle Pain for Kids?
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    Neonatal Palliative Care as an Integral Component of the National Healthcare System: the Experience of Greece
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  • Palliative Care Nurses


    Nurses Education: What Should be Included in a Palliative Care Course?
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    How do Nurses Reduce the Intensity of Separation Feelings Between Hospitalised Patients and Their Families?
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    Non-Pharmacological Interventions Feasible in the Nursing Scope of Practice for Pain Relief in Palliative Care Patients
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    Call the Nurse! Ethical Challenges in Palliative Nursing
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  • Home-Based Palliative Care

    Home-Based Palliative Care is Beneficial for Everyone: a Systematic Review
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    How to Stop the Conveyor Belt Putting Older People into Hospitals
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    Telemedicine as a Means of Providing Palliative Care
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    The Effective Implementation of Palliative Care in Home Care for Patients Living with Dementia
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  • Communication


    Specialised Jargon or Inclusive Language: Just One Aspect of Communication in Palliative Care Teams
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    Inclusive to the Very End: Engage People with Intellectual Disabilities in Planning of Their End of Life Experience
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    How to Prepare, Plan, and Be Present — a Handy Resource for Clinicians and Patients to Collaborate
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    Conversation Project — Professional Tool to Assist Patients in End-of-Life Planning
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    The Role and Position of Volunteers in Comprehensive Palliative Care: the Croatian Experience
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  • Pain Management


    How to Manage Pain in Cancer Patients with a History of Substance Abuse?
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    The Most Common Side Effect of Opioids is Constipation
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    Pittsburgh Scientists Conduct Clinical Trials of a Pain Self-Management Programme for HIV-Positive Patients with Chronic Pain
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    Music Is a Universal Non-Pharmacological Pain Reliever
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    Morphine: Essential But Scarce. How Can We Make It More Accessible?
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  • Specifics


    Trauma From a Patient's Point of View: Stories of the Last Survivors of Leprosy Stigma Explored by Greek Researchers
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    A Toolkit for Provision of Palliative Care to Homeless People
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    ‘Caring for Someone with…’ Real Stories of Specialised Care
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    Where to Learn Neuro-Palliative Care?
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    Palliative Care Perspectives of Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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    Non-Invasive Ventilation of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Comfort or Prolongation of Suffering?
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    Sexual Health and Palliative Care. Why Not All Patients Experience Sexual Dysfunction with Incurable Illness?
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    How to Take Care of Trans Patients in Hospice?
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  • Raising Awareness About Palliative Care

    Setting Priorities: Palliative Care Slipping Through the Cracks
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    Palliative Сare and Social Media
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    What Impact Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Had On the Development of Palliative Care?
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    Profit or Quality of Care? Commercial Hospices Are Gaining Market Share in Palliative Care Services
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    How to ‘Sell’ Palliative Care to Healthcare System Partners
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  • Ethics in Palliative Care


    Women Less Likely to Be Prescribed Pain Medications
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    Feeling Unprepared to Counsel Patients About Medical Cannabis? You Are Not Alone
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    Correctional Facilities and Palliative Care: How Can Specialists Overcome the Fundamental Contradiction Between Two Systems?
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    What is a Good Death?
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  • Early Palliative Care


    Palliative Care for Travelling, Working and Marrying Rather Than Dying
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    ‘If You Seek Help From a Palliative Care Doctor, it Means You Are Giving Up.’ Overcoming Common Barriers to End-of-Life Care
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    Early Palliative Care ‘Did Not Show a Benefit’ for Patients Undergoing Oncological Surgery
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  • Palliative Sedation


    Terminal Sedation vs. Spiritual Reading
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    Palliative Sedation. Clinical Practice in Sweden
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  • Grief


    ‘Day of Remembrance:’ Transitioning to a Virtual Format
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    Creating Memories. Supporting Families Facing the Loss of a Child in Palliative Care
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    Can Grief be ‘Done Right?’ The Grief Guide
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  • Innovations in Palliative Care

    Virtual Reality (VR) Technology Comes to Hospices: How Can it Help the Patients?
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    Congratulations to the Winners of the 2024 EAPC Researcher Award!
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    ‘Before I Die’
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