Illnesses and aging can force families to make challenging decisions regarding the health and well-being of people they love. Care facilities, home health aides and other services can help improve ...

The distinction between palliative care and hospice care can be confusing when deciding the next best course of action when you or a loved one is faced with a serious illness. Although both care plans ...

Deciding when to stop seeking curative measures and transition to palliative or hospice care is a deeply personal and often challenging decision. Understanding the differences between these types of ...

A new study led by Mass General Brigham suggests that a more proactive, tech-driven approach to palliative care can ...

Palliative care specialists have explained the order in which people lose their senses in the final hours of life, with hunger and thirst going first before speech, vision, and finally hearing and tou ...

In this article, we first summarize the palliative care needs of patients with HMs across the illness continuum. We then discuss barriers to specialty palliative care integration in this population ...

A new palliative care team at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, which launched as a pilot last year, has found a way to bring its services to more people with life-threatening illnesses.

Her mother, like too many Australians, missed out on quality and timely end-of-life care. Once associated with giving up, early palliative care is better for patients and their loved ones ...

The event was held at the campus of Notre Dame University Bangladesh and brought together students, faculty members, and healthcare professionals to raise awareness about compassionate care for people ...

Certain psychoactive substances can improve the mental health of terminally ill cancer patients—but few patients can ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

One fine morning, Avdesh, a migrant labourer living in Mumbai, woke up to a terrifying reality as his body, from the neck down, did not respond. His roommates r ...