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The purpose of this review is to inform health system improvements for care of elderly populations approaching the end of life (EOL) by identifying important elements of care and implementation barriers and facilitators.

Advance care planning (ACP) can promote patient-centered end-of-life (EOL) care and is intended to ensure that medical treatments are aligned with patient's values. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people face greater discrimination in health care settings compared with heterosexual, cisgender people, but it is unknown whether such discrimination occurs in ACP and how it might affect the ACP experiences of SGM people.

Abundant literature has argued the significance of religion, belief, and spirituality at the end of life. This study aims to add to this literature by exploring palliative professionals’ views in this area. By means of an in-depth interviewing method, this paper reports data from 15 hospice and palliative care professionals. Participants were recruited from five hospice and palliative care organisations, and the data were managed and analysed with thematic analysis and NVivo (version 11).

Few studies have meta‐analyzed different prognostic models developed for older adults, especially nursing home residents. We aimed to systematically review and meta‐analyze the performance of all published models that predicted all‐cause mortality among older nursing home residents.

This report describes an innovative interprofessional education collaborative practice (IPCP) experience for rehabilitation professions students using a unique on-campus camp model through a community-academic partnership. Throughout the three-day camp, known as the Bright Ideas TBI Camp, interprofessional student groups deliver tailored health and wellness services to individuals with disabilities due to traumatic brain injury and their caregivers.

People receiving palliative care have complex, wide-ranging, and changing needs, not just physical distress, but also psychosocial, practical, and spiritual. Influences on complexity in palliative care are different among healthcare providers and may depend on diverse aspects of the patient's condition, time, and environment. Therefore, this study aimed to integrate and describe the perspective of complexity in palliative care.

This article discusses strategies for delivering serious news. Several common frameworks are identified (ABCDE, BREAKS, SPIKES, Nurse). It is written from a physician perspective.

"Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease Treatment and Palliative Care" include the following learning objectives: the limitations of the Medicare hospice benefit; defining three models of palliative care; identifying the benefits and barriers to early palliative care referral and intervention; identifying reasons patients are lost to follow up; recognizing the importance of health literacy to care decisions; listing possible disease treatments that fit into the hospice model.

Addressing intergenerational trauma remains a public health priority in Native American (NA) communities. Clinicians working with NA patients must express humility, understand local culture, collaborate, and develop an insider's perspective on NA past and present life in order to earn trust. This case considers an NA adolescent suffering from mental distress, possible substance use, and multiple traumas.

A call to action for newly assigned champions, coordinators, and directors of education practice and education. In particular, understanding that often universities, programs, centers, etc. already have IPE in place.  A key strategy is to identify the when, where and how of IPE and to strategically organize the varied events, co-curricular activities, simulation, and other interprofessional inititiatives into a longitudinal pathway for leaners.