If you or a loved one has a serious or life-threatening illness, you might have thought about palliative care. To understand palliative care and how it can help relieve pain and improve quality 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 ...

Over the past decade, palliative care has become an increasingly important branch of medical care, dedicated to providing comfort to patients with serious and chronic illnesses. The practice spans ...

Palliative care and hospice professionals discuss what the process is like — and their insights may challenge what you think ...

Palliative care focuses on relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness such as cancer. It includes these aspects for people with cancer and for their families: pain and symptom management ...

Hospice care is a model for high-quality “compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury,” says the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). The approach is ...

The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) received a great deal of media interest recently and was the subject of the independent Neuberger Review (NR) (Neuberger, 2013). In a recent ...