New Advances in Palliative Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 14555
Special Issue Editors
Interests: palliative care; death; dying; home death; hospital death; tele-palliative care
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, palliative care is seen as an essential part of healthcare. According to the the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) definition, “Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.” Nevertheless, it is often associated with cancer and oncology patients, and both professionals and the public are lacking awareness that other patient groups with chronic life-limiting diseases, different ethnicities and diverse backgrounds may benefit from the provision of palliative care by community health services and/or specialized palliative care teams. New approaches to include all patients in need are paramount.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, palliative care provision was hampered, and new ways of providing palliative care during a pandemic had to be established. One method of communication during the pandemic was telemedicine and tele-palliative care.
There are many open questions concerning the inclusion of other groups than cancer patients in palliative care. Other questions are how to provide palliative care in pandemic times and along with curative intended therapy in intensive care and emergency medicine.
The goal of the Special Issue, “New Advances in Palliative Care”, is to highlight recent advances and challenges in palliative care that are connected to the inclusion of different patient groups in palliative care, palliative care in pandemic times, tele-palliative care and the use of modern technology in the field of palliative care.
This Special Issue will be of interest for researchers and clinicians from various fields and for policymakers, officials and politicians who are responsible for public health decisions and policies for the future. Thus, manuscripts on advances in palliative care from a broad range of disciplines and on a wide range of topics are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions
Dr. Georg Bollig
Prof. Dr. Erika Zelko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- palliative care
- advances
- home death
- hospital death
- tele-palliative care
- diverse patient groups
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