- Beyond simulation centers: Adapting psychosocial end-of-life training to local workforce and culture. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 13; 24:e246.PS
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- Migration as a transformative force shaping beliefs about and readiness for advance care planning among Thai immigrants in Australia: A qualitative exploration. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 13; 24:e264.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: Migration disrupts traditional Thai norms surrounding family roles, communication, and decision-making, thereby reshaping how participants understand and approach readiness for ACP. Thai immigrants reinterpret family roles, faith, and autonomy within a new cultural context, emphasizing the need for culturally responsive ACP approaches that respect family influence, indirect communication, and the role of community mediators.
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- Discharge from continuity: Teleconsultation and the limits of outpatient palliative care. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 12; 24:e262.PS
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- The human washing machine. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 12; 24:e261.PS
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- Holistic suffering in patients with cancer: A qualitative study informed by descriptive quantitative assessment. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 12; 24:e258.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: Holistic suffering in cancer is an integrated, dynamic experience that can be understood as a nonlinear existential trajectory, in which participants moved back and forth between disruption of the self, the anchoring of faith and relationships, emotional concealment, and meaning-making. The proposed interpretive model synthesizes this trajectory and may serve as a conceptual starting point for designing interventions addressing holistic suffering.
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- The harder right. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 12; 24:e260.PS
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- From voices to dignity: Empirical foundations of the DiRePal model in persons with advanced cancer. [Multicenter Study]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 12; 24:e259.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: These findings ground a relational-temporal account of dignity in reciprocal recognition between patients, caregivers, and clinicians across shared, unevenly experienced time. Listening, temporal prudence, and recognition of clinicians' vulnerability should be clinical priorities, alongside cautious, relationally framed integration of digital tools.
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- Embodied relational dignity: An anthropology of personhood for clinical ethics. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 12; 24:e263.PS
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- Hope and empathy as drivers of therapeutic response in cancer care: A psycho-oncological, narrative, and philosophical exploration of the HETR model. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 10; 24:e255.PS
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- Nursing-led predictive symptom management in oncology palliative care: Using laboratory indicators and clinical judgment to improve patient quality of life: A systematic review. [Systematic Review]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 09; 24:e257.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: Nurse-led predictive approaches support a shift from reactive to proactive palliative care. Further research is needed to embed predictive tools into routine practice and to validate their effectiveness in real-world settings.
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- Frail community-dwelling older persons' advance care planning and end-of-life wishes and preferences: A qualitative interview study. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 08; 24:e254.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: When asked about ACP, participants focused predominantly on preferences and expectations regarding EOL care and the period surrounding death. These reflections, grounded in personal values and identity, were most often shared with family and close friends and less frequently with healthcare professionals. These findings highlight the central role of informal networks in ACP communication, suggesting that healthcare professionals should actively involve these networks in ACP discussions and decision-making. Furthermore, ACP conversations may benefit from starting from persons' underlying values and their priorities in life.
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- From final words to meaningful living: Reframing dignity therapy through culturally responsive counseling. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 08; 24:e253.PS
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- Mental health struggles and coping strategies of individuals facing terminal illness of a loved one: A survey in a tertiary care hospital of Kolkata, West Bengal. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 08; 24:e251.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers experienced considerable psychological burden, with emotional coping consistently linked to distress. These associations likely reflect reactive adaptation rather than inherent maladaptiveness. Results highlight an urgent need to recognize caregiver distress within oncology settings and to develop culturally informed psychosocial interventions in palliative care, particularly in low-resource environments. Such efforts could enhance both caregiver well-being and quality of end-of-life care.
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- Grief and bereavement care in pediatric palliative care: Gaps, global disparities, and a proposed integrated framework. [Review]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 08; 24:e256.PS
- CONCLUSIONS: GBC should be viewed as a longitudinal, culturally sensitive, system-wide responsibility extending from diagnosis through bereavement. Integrated frameworks emphasizing early communication, patient- and family-centered care, and formal grief training for HCPs may strengthen bereavement support and reduce unmet psychosocial needs across the pediatric illness trajectory.
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- Beyond cultural congruence: A transformative counseling perspective on repatriation at the end of life. [Journal Article]Palliat Support Care. 2026 Oct 07; 24:e252.PS
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