When it comes to treating and managing serious illnesses, there are options besides hospice. Palliative care is a way for people to discover options for relieving pain and other symptoms ...

Experts say there is a growing intersection of patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses and addiction medicine, and in response, Johns Hopkins Medicine is now teaching generalist addiction ...

For many reasons, few of us like to reflect on our own mortality or the circumstances that may accompany our death. But the fact of the matter, of course, is that each of us will die some day, and ...

Care at the end of life should address all of the important elements that play a critical role in ensuring a positive end-of-life experience for patients and families. Therefore, quality end-of-life ...

Palliative care is often misunderstood. It provides care for the patient as a whole person and works to address suffering of the body, mind and spirit. The goal is to enhance quality of life at all ...

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the national voice for nonprofit hospice and advanced ...

These profound words so beautifully describe the ideal objective of medical care. Who first used them is unclear. Although today we might add something about preserving health rather than focus on ...

Bottom Line: The majority of surveyed Americans had an inadequate understanding of palliative care, and frequency of health care utilization was one determinant of knowledge. Journal in Which the ...

Your healthcare partners are committed to providing you with the most up-to-date and timely therapies and interventions to treat breast cancer. One of these interventions is palliative care, also ...

Hospice Maui volunteer Nane Aluli serenades a patient. The 47-year-old agency is using a new patient outcomes and evaluation tool designed to give care teams a better understanding of each patient’s ...

Hematopoietic cell transplantation can be lifesaving, but it’s also one of the most demanding treatments patients and ...

The term “hospice” is probably more familiar to most people than “palliative care.” The concept of hospice care began in England in the late 1940s, and was introduced in the United States in the 1960s ...