Palliative care and hospice are two types of care offered to people with serious medical illnesses. Provided to anyone, at any stage, who is continuing curative treatments and would like support ...

Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...

Modern medicine can treat and cure countless health conditions, but it can’t always repair the quality-of-life impairments these conditions leave behind. Palliative care is a health care service ...

Palliative care is a whole-person approach to care that includes managing symptoms and side effects, psychosocial health, and spiritual concerns, for an overall improved quality of life. Palliative ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 7 analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample, the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient database in the United States, to ...

An international group of authors has called for a shift in cardiovascular care. In the public eye, palliative care is often ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Palliative care provides holistic support, addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being, and is distinct from hospice care. Multidisciplinary teams collaborate with healthcare ...

How do children with a life-threatening illness or injury cope with that reality? How do families deal with such a devastating blow? Children, parents, siblings, and grandparents face difficult and ...

Scotland’s assisted dying debate focused on safeguards, but for thousands dying in poverty with unmet care needs, the real question goes much deeper.

Dying individuals across the UK are facing a "postcode lottery" in their final moments, according to a new report from MPs.