This update comes at a time when the healthcare industry is rapidly shifting toward patient-centered models, digital access, ...

Older adults who receive care at home tend not to get palliative care before they die, according to a new report published today in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Researchers evaluated ...

Harrisburg-based Homeland Center’s community outreach program, Homeland at Home, announced this week that it will now offer palliative care services. Homeland will provide in-home palliative care to ...

Hospice care can be provided at home or on an in-patient basis. Roughly 1.6 million people with life-limiting illness receive care from U.S. hospice or palliative care providers, according to the ...

When Nancy Stordahl’s mother was hospitalized in 2008 for her rapidly progressing metastatic breast cancer, a palliative care team stopped by the room one day to talk about her mother’s needs. But ...

With the population getting older and living well into advanced ages, the pressure to improve palliative and hospice care is ...

Palliative and hospice care both focus on supporting patients and improving quality of life. Palliative care can start at diagnosis, while hospice care supports patients nearing the end of life.

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious ...

When you have non-small -lung cancer (NSCLC), the disease and treatments for it can take a toll on how you feel. You may have pain, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, depression, and shortness of breath.

For example, a prospective longitudinal, Canadian study compared palliative care costs (including public health care system, family, and nonprofit organizations) in rural and urban decedents’ last 6 ...