Take control of your future by integrating end-of-life care planning. Learn how to ensure your wishes are respected and ...

Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

Increasing the uptake of palliative care may decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care, an analysis of ovarian cancer decedents suggested. Palliative care initiated earlier than 3 months before ...

Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as has ...

Access to quality end-of-life care can mean the difference between comfort and distress in a person’s final days. Yet, millions of Americans still struggle to receive the end-of-life care they deserve ...

The Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) tested a new option for eligible Medicare beneficiaries to receive conventional treatment for terminal conditions along with supportive and palliative care from ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Ga., had defied expectations since entering hospice care at his home in February 2023. Although homages began to roll in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of aggressive end-of-life cancer treatment has not changed over the past decade. Physician and institutional ...

The changes to end-of-life skin wound classification in the most recent Minimum Data Set update are ultimately a positive for long-term care, but regulatory ambiguity and potential legal concerns ...