“Implementation strategies for early palliative care initiation are needed to optimize care quality and health resource ...

Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care. At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our researchers focus on seeking out innovative answers for palliative ...

For patients facing a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, a compassionate approach to care can be transformative. Yet, a new study ...

Through a range of palliative ... providing 24-hour nursing care, hospital, or a free-standing hospice inpatient unit) Continuous care (determined by assessment) Respite (placement in an approved ...

SINGAPORE – While the vast majority of Singaporeans correctly identify palliative care as relieving the suffering of people with a serious illness, a recent survey found that many still mistake ...

Our multidisciplinary team of experts (global palliative care, respiratory medicine, epidemiology, palliative medicine, psychiatry, sport science, global public health and health economics ...

This is where palliative care comes in, a field that supplements curative medicine with care and support. 12 October marked World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, which invited us to reflect on ...

While the ethical and societal implications of assisted dying are being debated, it would be worthwhile to look at what ...

Most Singaporeans prefer to die at home, but only three in 10 of them know what palliative care is about. A survey conducted by local non-profit Lien Foundation on more than 1,000 adult ...

With euthanasia rates soaring across the country, Canada’s Catholic bishops are appealing for greater emphasis on palliative care, including better end-of-life training for doctors and a call ...