Meet the editor

Professor Mukadder Mollaoğlu graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Turkey, where she currently works, in 1991. She obtained a doctorate at Istanbul University Health Sciences Institute. Her research focuses on examining the effects of chronic diseases on the quality of life of patients; she also lectures and publishes in her field. She is an editorial board member and reviewer for many medical journals

and has published papers in eminent journals as well as books in the field of chronic diseases and palliative care. Dr. Mollaoğlu has participated in a number of national and international panels, conferences and congresses related to quality of life, where she has held various duties such as speaker and session chairperson. She is a member of many associations on chronic diseases.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Georg Bollig*

*by Sukru Keles*

Palliative Care

*and Nobuhisa Nakajima*

*by Thomas Antony Thaniyath*

Palliative Care Network in Brazil

*by Nnadi Daniel Chukwunyere*

Palliative Care: The Nigerian Perspective

Palliative Care Education for Everybody

The Marquette Palliative Care System *by Richard R. Love and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed*

Palliative Care Ethics: Medicine's Duty to Help

Optimal Delivery of a Death Pronouncement

**Preface III**

Conceptual Aspects of Palliative Care and Different Region Applications **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 69**

**Chapter 7 81**

*Jacqueline Resende Boaventura, Ana Paula Da Silva, Luciana Ferreira Da Silva,* 

Communication with Families in the Last Days of a Patient's Life and

The Quality of Life of the Patients Under Palliative Care: The Features of Appropriate Assessment Tools and the Impact of Early Integration of

*by Soichiro Okamoto, Yu Uneno, Masanori Mori, Takashi Yamaguchi* 

*by Juliana Guimarães Lima Munis, Juliana Dias Reis Pessalacia,* 

*Aires Garcia dos Santos Júnior and Adriano Menis Ferreira*
