Palliative and end-of-life care is about understanding, supporting, and honoring each individual's journey. Here's how to ...

Despite considerable efforts to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the United States, a new retrospective study led ...

It is important that a healthcare team is aware of and understands a patient's goals of care, both medical and personal.

It is important that a health care team is aware of and understands a patient's goals of care, both medical and personal. But ...

AN end of life charity service is reportedly set to be axed in several areas after running for more than two decades.

Dr Warwick Jones, director of clinical services at Northhaven Hospice in Whangārei and a palliative care specialist for Northland/Te Tai Tokerau, said the current model was not sustainable. He said ...

One of the main strengths of this study is that it was a multisite effectiveness study that enrolled participants frequently seen in palliative care services. The relatively rapid rate of recruitment ...

Additionally, he said, palliative care services will be provided to patients for pain management and relief from other physical symptoms, as well as psychosocial and spiritual support services.

Both Medicare and Medicaid may cover some palliative services. However, since neither Medicare nor Medicaid use the term “palliative,” the treatment you’re receiving has to be covered by ...

Paediatric palliative care requires competences including both paediatric specialists as well as services that are developed for this purpose, and there is a need to facilitate paediatric palliative ...

Objectives This article provides an overview of mental health issues encountered in palliative care, highlights the ways psychologists and psychiatrists care for these issues, describes current ...