Access to palliative care is commonly considered as solely a health services challenge
rather than a community challenge. Successive healthcare reports continue to pose the …

Background: If global palliative care is to successfully address challenges of unequal
access, continuity of care, and health services reductionism, new practice models to address …

Despite significant advances in understanding the benefits of early integration of palliative
care with disease management, many people living with a chronic life-threatening illness …

Objective: To identify barrier to achieving universal access to high quality palliative care in
Canada, review published national strategies and frameworks to promote palliative care …

Disparities in access to health care also extend to the end-of-life care. Despite the general
principle that palliative care is equitably available for all in need, it remains underutilised by …

This publication serves as a guide for empowering health workers in resource-poor settings
to integrate palliative care into the work they are doing by grafting the missing elements of …

Palliative care is a values-driven approach for providing holistic care for individuals and their
families enduring serious life-limiting illness. Despite its proven benefits, access and …

The aim was to review factors affecting patients' access to palliative care. First, the benefits
of palliative care for comprehensive care of patients and their families are identified. Despite …

Palliative care helps improve the quality of life of individuals facing life-limiting illness
throughout the course of their disease. In Canada, delivery and access to palliative care has …

Palliative care enables a better end of life, but not all Canadians have access to it. Access to
community-based palliative care has become a priority for federal, provincial and territorial …