Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Attending to the Existential Experience.

Identifying and attending to the existential needs of persons with serious illness and their care partners are integral to whole-person palliative care (PC). Yet, many PC clinicians, due to individual factors and wider systemic barriers, are ill-prepared and under-resourced to navigate the existential dimension. In this article, written from clinical, research, and lived experiences, we offer tips to empower PC clinicians to understand, recognize, and respond to patients' and care partners' existential experiences by leveraging their existing skills, collaborating closely with colleagues, exploring their own existential experience, and implementing evidence-based interventions.

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Navigating the Needs of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.

As many people with intellectual disabilities (ID) live longer, the need for access to quality palliative care (PC) rises. People with ID realize significant barriers and inequities in accessing health care and PC. The need for integrated disability and PC services with extensive collaboration is great.

Navigating End-of-Life Needs for a Person With Intellectual Disabilities and Their Caregivers.

People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) are living longer, with many experiencing significant barriers to accessing palliative care and hospice services. Families, caregivers, and direct support professionals comprise essential portions of the community of support often surrounding a person with IDs. For a variety of reasons, including clinician bias and communication difficulties, many people with IDs are excluded from critical conversations regarding their health and life.

Introduction to Sex-Positive Palliative Care: Best Practices and Interventions.

Discussing difficult and personal topics is not new to those practicing palliative care. Specialty-level consultation is often sought to facilitate complex and uncomfortable conversations on death and dying. Palliative care (PC) providers focus on patient and family needs through the lens of whole-person care.