Palliative care — moving forward

Moving survivorship care plans forward: focus on care coordination

After completing treatment for cancer, the coordination of oncology and primary care presents a challenge for cancer survivors. Many survivors need continued oncology follow-up, and all survivors require primary care. Coordinating the shared care of a cancer survivor, or facilitating an informed handoff from oncology to primary care, is essential for cancer survivors. Survivorship care plans ar...

Integrating Palliative Care Into Oncology: A Way Forward.

BACKGROUND Patients with cancer have complex physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs that evolve throughout their disease trajectory. As patients are living longer with a diagnosis of cancer, the need is growing to address the morbidity due to the underlying illness as well as treatment-related adverse events. Palliative care includes treating physical symptoms as well as addressing psychos...

Healing and palliative care: charting our way forward.

Healing has been defined as a relational process involving movement towards an experience of integrity and wholeness, whichmay be facilitated by a caregiver’s interventions but is dependent on an innate potential within the patient. It is not dependant on the presence of, or the capacity for, physical well being. Indeed, it is possible to die healed. In contrast to the familiar Hippocratic appr...

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.