%0 Journal Article %T The challenge of family-centered care in palliative medicine %A David W. Kissane %J SCIE-indexed Journal %D 2016 %X Palliative care has long aspired to the competent delivery of family-centered care alongside outstanding person-centered care. While the rhetoric has been strong, models of effective family-centered care have proved challenging, leaving this as one of the key domains warranting the sustained focus of our discipline in the twenty-first century. Yet there is clear consensus that the unit of care is the patient and family %U http://apm.amegroups.com/article/view/12001/12387