By Barry R. Ashpole
Communications consultant & IAHPC board member
The latest issue of IAHPC's Literature Search covers a wide-range of issues/topics in hospice and palliative care. This issue includes an unusual number of articles, etc., on assessment tools, care planning and serious illness conversations, dementia, oncology, and pediatrics. Here is a small sampling.
Reflecting on Choices and Responsibility in Palliative Care in the Context of Social Disadvantage. Palliative Care & Social Practice, online August 25, 2023. DOI: 10.1177/26323524231193
There is a need to understand how to improve palliative care provision for people impacted by social inequity. This paper "offers a new way of framing individual responsibility, agency and collective action that may help palliative care professionals to support patients nearing their end of life, and their families, in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage."
A Description and Comparison of Palliative Care Services in a Developed Country and a Developing Country. Journal of College of Palliative Medicine of Sri Lanka, online August 15, 2023. DOI: 10.5448/jcpmsl23103
This comparison of services in England and Sri Lanka describes "numerous effective initiatives used in England in delivering palliative care services [that] successfully could be adapted and utilized to strengthen the palliative care delivery system in Sri Lanka."
Integrating Palliative Care Into the Evolving Landscape of Oncology. Current Problems in Cancer, online September 6, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2023.101013
The authors pose a series of clinical questions related to the current state of early palliative care integration into oncology, review the evidence and reflect on how to apply it.
Best Practice in Telephone Bereavement Support: A thematic analysis of bereavement support providers’ perspectives. Omega – Journal of Death & Dying, online September 11, 2023. DOI: 10.1177/0030222823119
Seven themes arose from interviews with 26 health care professionals in Australia. And while "participants viewed telephone bereavement support as an effective and accessible tool in supporting individuals’ processing of and adaptation to loss, concerns remain regarding the quality and consistency of care provided."
Integrated Dual Training in Palliative Care and Oncology. Current Problems in Cancer, online 6 September 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2023.101012
There is increasing demand for an integrated fellowship pathway, inaugurated in the US in 2022. This paper explores applications of dual training, its challenges, and how to assess outcomes.
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