| Title |
Palliative care for patients with motor neurone disease: current challenges
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Degenerative Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.2147/dnnd.s85103 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David J Oliver |
| Abstract |
Motor neurone disease is a progressive disease, and the patient and his/her family face many challenges during the disease progression, with increasing weakness and multiple losses of function. The provision of care for these patients and their families is equally challenging, anticipating and responding to the person's needs. There are increasing challenges as more is understood about the disease and its management, including the genetic basis, cognitive change, the use of interventions such as ventilatory support, and gastrostomy. There is also an increasing need to ensure that the later stages are recognized so that all can be more prepared for the end of life, including recognition of deterioration and end of life, advance care planning, symptom management and psychosocial care at the end of life, and coping with requests for assisted dying. Careful assessment and good multidisciplinary team (MDT) work can enable patients and their families to have as good a quality of life as possible, and allow a peaceful death of the patient. |
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| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 60 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 7% |
| Researcher | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 13% |
| Unknown | 27 | 45% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 18% |
| Psychology | 9 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 25 | 42% |
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