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 and hospice care have a number of things in common. Both are designed to help people living with a serious illness and to improve their quality of life. But it’s important to ...

The principles of palliative care have made their way into the medical zeitgeist, which is great progress. Now is the moment to empower all doctors and specialists to incorporate this human-centered ...

Palliative care and hospice are two types of care offered to people with serious medical illnesses. Provided to anyone, at any stage, who is continuing curative treatments and would like support ...

Home-based care executives are increasingly turning to alternative reimbursement models developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

In the last months of my mother’s life, before she went into hospice, she was seen at home by a nurse practitioner who specialized in palliative care. The focus is on improving patients’ quality of ...

The term palliative care has long been associated with an end-of-life connotation. Patients who are offered palliative care services might panic and assume they have no options left. This could not be ...

Stroke is often seen as a crisis of the moment — an acute medical emergency where the first 24-48 hours are critical for survival. But for many patients, the challenges don’t end there. Navigating the ...

For the first time, an international expert panel has developed referral criteria for specialist palliative care for patients with dementia, which could help standardize referral across various care ...

Palliative care consultations improve quality of life and reduce financial strain for esophageal cancer patients by decreasing intensive interventions. Patients receiving palliative care had shorter ...