%0 Journal Article
%T Barriers to Access to Palliative Care
%A Pippa Hawley
%J Archive of "Palliative Care".
%D 2017
%R 10.1177/1178224216688887
%X Despite significant advances in understanding the benefits of early integration of palliative care with disease management, many people living with a chronic life-threatening illness either do not receive any palliative care service or receive services only in the last phase of their illness. In this article, I explore some of the reasons for failure to provide palliative care services and recommend some strategies to overcome these barriers, emphasizing the importance of describing palliative care accurately. I provide language which I hope will help health care professionals of all disciplines explain what palliative care has to offer and ensure wider access to palliative care, early in the course of their illness
%K palliative care
%K health service delivery
%K models of care
%K barriers to care
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398324/