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Discover the nuanced skills required in communicating with patients facing serious illnesses. The article emphasizes the importance of not just conveying information, but also supporting patients through the emotional and cognitive aspects of their prognosis.

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Discover how the gerineuropalliative approach is redefining dementia care by integrating principles from geriatrics, palliative care, and dementia management. Learn how this comprehensive model could transform patient outcomes and alleviate caregiver burden.

Palliative care (PC) can help reduce emergency department use, hospitalizations, and symptom burden across a spectrum of diseases. To assist clinicians in keeping their expertise current, the authors reviewed and summarized the top PC articles of 2020. The analysis included 28 PC intervention trials for heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and dementia.

There is plenty of psychological material that can be examined in the palliative care encounter, despite the fact that it is frequently practiced by doctors with backgrounds outside of mental health training. This case presentation and associated discussion to introduce the psychological aspects of palliative medicine to psychiatrists and psychotherapists is based on the palliative care consultation sought with the multiple objectives of alleviating a patient’s severe death anxiety and persistent dyspnea, as well as helping in the clarification of his end-of-life wishes.