Category Archives: Therapies

Art therapy and the restoration of capacity in palliative care

Posted on August 5, 2019 by

CATCH UP WITH SOME OF OUR ‘PAST POSTS’ – TODAY WE’RE REPUBLISHING ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE POSTS FROM THE ARTS IN PALLIATIVE CARE SERIES.   The series looks at how the arts in palliative care settings can be a powerful … Continue reading →

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Bringing Breathlessness into View – a multimedia exhibition on living well with breathlessness

Posted on July 1, 2019 by

Ann Hutchinson and Miriam Johnson from the Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, United Kingdom, describe how they are using a multimedia exhibition to help people to live well with breathlessness. The exhibition was held during the UK’s recent annual awareness … Continue reading →

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Using a holistic approach to reduce distress due to breathlessness in people with advanced disease

Posted on December 12, 2018 by

Researchers, clinicians, and service user representatives at Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London, have been gathering evidence on services for people with chronic breathlessness and advanced disease. Their findings are now published in Thorax and available in open access. Dr … Continue reading →

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Singing to a dead infant: How music therapy promoted and valued cultural difference to support a bereaved Yoruba family

Posted on December 13, 2017 by

In this series, The Arts in Palliative Care, we look at how the arts in palliative care settings can be a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues that face people at the end … Continue reading →

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The importance of palliative home care for older people

Posted on October 2, 2017 by

Sandra Silva Preciado gives a personal view of working as a physiotherapist in geriatric psychomotricity and palliative care in Bogotá, Colombia. In Colombia, the elderly have always received less palliative care because they have the preconception that it is normal … Continue reading →

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