Palliative care, a type of healthcare for patients with life-threatening diseases, focuses on improving quality of life and managing pain. Unlike healthcare professionals who treat diseases or ...

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 provided to all patients with serious illness, regardless of their prognosis. “Like palliative care, hospice provides comprehensive comfort care, as well as support for the family,” ...

For an estimated 11% of Americans over age 65 who have dementia and the over 11 million unpaid caregivers supporting them, ...

New guidance from the American Heart Association (AHA) emphasizes the need to integrate palliative care into treatment plans for older heart patients. The scientific statement, published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with usual care, default palliative care consult orders led to more consultations in older patients ...

In the intensive care unit (ICU), every second counts when treating critically ill patients. But among the cutting-edge technologies, there is rarely any sort of defined process to swiftly identify ...

Ordering a palliative care consultation by "default"—via an automatic order programmed into the electronic medical record that doctors may cancel if they choose—is an effective strategy to give more ...

Dr. Debra Lundquist, PhD, RN and Dr. Arun Ghoshal, MD, MBBS discuss the new update to the palliative care for patients with cancer guideline developed by an interdisciplinary Expert Panel. They share ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than three times as many white patients with DLBLC received palliative care consultations than Black ...

Bonita Springs Healthcare Services is a Gilroy-based provider of hospice, home health, and palliative care solutions.

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