Introduction Over the past 35 or more years, mature and immature allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic cells collected from the PB3 have been used in the supportive care management of patients with therapy or disease-induced intermittent, recurrent, and often prolonged periods of BM suppression. Clinical, laboratory, and technological research has been directed into the cellular contents of t...

background and aim: patients’ hospitalization is associated with family members’ anxiety. fulfilling family members’ needs such as providing them with information and helping them have physical contacts with their patients can alleviate their anxiety. this study was conducted to investigate the impacts of family members’ supportive presence in a neurological intensive care unit on their anxiety...

This paper presents an eyetracking during reading experiment that investigated the role of supportive context on processing aspectual coercion. Coercion sentences in need of aspectual enrichment were embedded in discourse contexts providing the necessary information for successful interpretation. The findings of the reported experiment show that context information can be used immediately witho...

Dementia care is quite rightly the focus of much attention. Guidance on the treatment and care of people with dementia has recently been jointly agreed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2006). This recommends as a key priority for implementation that ‘Carers of people with d...

The Supportive Care Framework for Cancer Care was originally formulated in 1994 (Fitch, 1994). The framework was designed as a tool for cancer care professionals and program managers to conceptualize what type of help cancer patients might require and how planning for service delivery might be approached. The framework has been presented in various arenas and the number of requests has been gro...