Geriatric Medicine & Palliative Care
Provides resources, strategies, and information on conducting research in Geriatric Medicine.
New Edition
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care 4th ed.Creates a blueprint for excellence by establishing a comprehensive foundation for gold-standard palliative care for all people living with serious illness, regardless of their diagnosis, prognosis, age or setting.
Includes clinical & organizational strategies, screening & assessment elements, practice examples, tools & resources.
From the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care.
Search Terms for Palliative Care
PubMed - MeSH
- Ethics (encompasses Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Professional Ethics, & so much more)
- Advance Care Planning
- Attitude to Death
- Bereavement (includes Grief)
- Caregivers
- Euthanasia (includes Active and Passive Euthanasia)
- Hospice Care, Hospices, Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine (added 2015)
- Patient Comfort, Quality of Life
- Patient Care Team
- Right to Die
- Resuscitation (includes Resuscitation Orders, that is, DNR)
- Social Work
- Social Support
- Terminally Ill, Terminal Care
- consider Psychology as a subheading or additional search term, where appropriate
Statistics
- FastStats - Hospice CareFrom the CDC.
- Health Care in America: Trends in UtilizationIncludes charts on use of hospice services by race & deaths occurring while enrolled in home health care or in a hospice.
- NHHCS - National Home and Hospice Care SurveyIncludes the first-ever nationwide survey of home health aides, who provide the majority of direct care to the country’s 2.2 million home health & hospice patients for more than 10,000 home & hospice care agencies in the U.S. From 2007.
- Health Statistics (research guide)Extensive listing of statistical resources for health and health care.
Tools
- Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS)For assessment of 9 symptoms common in cancer patients.
- Measurement & Evaluation ToolsTools to measure pain & symptoms, functional status, psychosocial care, caregiver assessment, & quality of life. From the National Palliative Care Research Center.
- Memorial Symptom Assessment ScaleAssess 24 symptoms, from NPCRC.
- Palliative Performance ScaleFrom Victoria Hospice, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Research
- National Coalition for Hospice & Palliative CareResources page includes links to blogs, as well as workshop reports & other tools.
Palliative Care E-Books
Case Studies in Palliative and End-Of-Life Care by Publication Date: 2013
Dying in America by Publication Date: 2015
Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine by Publication Date: 2013
Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults by Publication Date: 2011
International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care by Publication Date: 2011
Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People by Publication Date: 2013
Palliative Care by Publication Date: 2011
