Palliative care has received increasing attention at the ASCO Annual Meeting since the publication of its “Provisional Clinical Opinion: The Integration of Palliative Care Into Standard Oncology Care” ...

We’ve come a long way in the past 20 years, evidencing how the specialty of palliative care saves money, improves quality of life, produces quality outcomes, and enhances provider satisfaction—all key ...

Unpaid caregivers need greater recognition and support to continue the care they provide to their families and friends, and researchers have identified priorities outlining how to achieve this.

For example, many patients receiving palliative care lose their ability to swallow and cannot, therefore, take oral medications easily. Instead, they may need subcutaneous administration, which ...

Twelve in every 100 people older than 60 in India — and 17 in every 100 in Bengal — need supportive palliative care, mainly because of chronic respiratory disorders, stroke and cancer, the country’s ...

Palliative care can make a huge difference for patients with cancer. Find out if it’s right for you. As science progresses, patients with cancer are gaining access to more therapeutic approaches than ...

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 ...

"He will not die on your watch." That's what the family of a patient told Sunita Puri when she was a resident in internal medicine. They were chilling words for the young doctor as she took over the ...

Palliative care tries to support a patient’s quality of life. Pekic/E+ via Getty Images When most people hear the term palliative care, they look worried or confused. Introducing myself to patients ...

Despite advances in medical care, many children still die throughout the world, making education in pediatric palliative care a universal need. Lack of provider and patient–family education has been ...

This first article in a series describes the principles underpinning high-quality nursing care for people at the end of life, applicable to nurses in any care setting. This article, the first in a ...

Access to palliative care for people with serious illness, i.e., those with serious medical conditions, functional impairment, and high health care utilization, has expanded greatly over the last ...