As the U.S. population ages, palliative medicine and care is continuing to grow and become a bigger part of medical professions. Benjamin Horn, a senior studying biology and German, carried out an ...

What Is Palliative Care? "Palliative care is an integrative medical caregiving approach that aims to improve the quality of life and reduce the suffering of people with serious complex and terminal ...

Palliative care is more than a focus on physical symptoms such as pain; there is also an emphasis on the mental well-being and social support of that patient. Because of this, palliative care is ...

Kim K. Kuebler, Mellar P. Davis, Crystal Dea Moore. Palliative Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Mosby; 2005. 491 pages, ISBN 0-323-02821-7. This book is authored by ...

Palliative care is increasingly recognized as an important component of quality care for cancer patients. Given an estimated 1,437,180 new patients diagnosed with cancer in the USA in 2008 , and ...

We interviewed 15 gynecologic oncologists from 8 institutions in Chicago. They described a variety of expectations from palliative care consultation. Most frequently, they consulted palliative care ...

A palliative care approach includes preventing, screening for and relieving pain and distress associated with the challenges of living with a life-threatening illness. This approach can be applied to ...

Combining approaches from palliative care and population health may improve care quality for elderly and frail patients, a pair of doctors suggest in a JAMA Viewpoints article. David Casarett, M.D., ...

Adopting an emerging model, a Pennsylvania skilled nursing provider is expanding its reach to include palliative and other support services for chronically ill residents. Exton Post Acute, a 120-bed ...

A novel palliative care intervention developed at Children's National Health System for caregivers of children and adolescents with rare diseases has shown preliminary success at helping families talk ...

Doctors Nova Scotia is emphasizing a palliative approach to care for patients in Nova Scotia. “Say you’re diagnosed with COPD, a chronic lung disease. It can be something that is going to shorten your ...