Cultural competency is not enough for palliative medicine to build trust and offer good deaths to all, write Jamilla Akhter Hussain , Rekha Vijayshankar , and Mary Hodgson Death, dying, and grief are ...

Most people move through life assuming there will be time later to slow down and reflect. Big decisions are postponed, ...

Sunset Palliative Care is closing out 2025 reflecting on a year defined by long-awaited milestones, expanding community ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: Welcome to the program, it's Norman Swan here with a very special Health Report. On this ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The work of the 19th annual Conference organised by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Pastoral, 11-13 November in the Vatican which focused on Palliative Care, was ...

As part of my job as a research assistant, I had to listen to and transcribe four interviews conducted with two women residing in care centers. They described receiving care that seemed to be based on ...

A palliative care charity is inviting its supporters to remember and celebrate their loved ones at a special event. Compton Care in Wolverhampton is holding the event in the Garden of Reflection at ...

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of people with serious or life-altering illnesses. Each person’s care varies but can involve physical, psychological, and educational elements.

When you’re seriously ill, you have to manage not just your medical condition but physical, emotional, and practical matters as well. You may be in pain or too tired to get through the day. You and ...

Palliative care physicians are trained to prevent and ease suffering for people who have serious illnesses or who need end-of-life care. Most health care providers focus on diagnosing and treating ...