Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

Jun 10, 2024

This episode features Sheryn Tan (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia) and Dr Stephen Bacchi (Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia; Lyell McEwin Hospital, Elizabeth Vale, SA, Australia)

What is already known about the topic?

• In palliative care patients for whom there is a need for...

Jun 10, 2024

This episode features Dr Maria Arantzamendit, (Universidad de Navarra, Institute for Culture and Society-ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. IdISNA-Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra. Medicina PaliativaK).

What is already known about the topic?

• Palliative care...

Oct 30, 2023

This episode features Dr Vanessa Abrahamson, (Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Kent, UK).

What is already known about the topic?

• Increasingly, people at end-of-life want to die at home but this relies heavily on family carers to support the patient.
• Many carers struggle with the practical...

Oct 9, 2023

This episode features Dr Nivedita Ashok, (University College London, London, UK).

What is already known about the topic?

• Individuals with intellectual disability or serious mental illness have high rates of mortality due to physical comorbidities.
• These populations have specific needs that should be met to...

Sep 11, 2023

This episode features Caitlin Spooner (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London, London, UK).

 What is already known about the topic?

- Currently, there is no gold standard for evaluating how different methods of prognosticating in advanced cancer impact on patient care.

- Prognostic...