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 ...

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 ...

Palliative care is an approach focused on improving the quality of life of those with serious illnesses. Learn the palliative ...

For many people with cancer and other serious diseases, palliative care is an important element of their journey.

There are few certainties in healthcare, but one is that hospitals will generally be facing an increasingly older population. And with age comes more chronically and severely ill patients. This is a ...

While palliative care is often associated with cancer or terminally-ill patients, the scope is much larger, with a focus on symptom control, emotional well-being and quality of life ...

Dear Carol: After caring for my mom for years, I moved her to memory care due to her dementia. At 93, she is fading. This memory care has some nursing available for an extra charge, and they’ve been ...

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in March appointed Kristina Newport, MD, as chief medical officer for the organization. Dr. Newport currently serves as chief of palliative care ...

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 ...

"People often think that as palliative care doctors we only see people who are very old," Dr. Kerith Whittigan said ...