Patients who received narrative-based palliative care also reported better quality of life, improved sleep quality, and greater acceptance of death compared with patients receiving routine care. These ...

Palliative care for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) helps you deal with the physical, emotional, and spiritual issues related to your cancer and its treatments. This type of care doesn't slow or ...

When someone has a condition that is difficult or impossible to cure, treatment often focuses on relieving the symptoms and improving the person’s quality of life. This vital form of care is called ...

The health system's Whole Person Care Collaborative provides the infrastructure to support the needs of cancer patients beyond treatment of their illness.

More accessible government funding for palliative care patients and carers could help ensure everyone has an equal chance of ...

The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization based at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City, has a good explanation of palliative care. It is ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 7 analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample, the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient database in the United States, to ...

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, ...

National policy positions home-based palliative and elder care as a way to reduce suffering and avoid unnecessary hospitalisation.

MP Harish Beeran urged the government to legislate end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. Despite Supreme Court directives, Parliament has not acted. He emphasized the financial strain on ...