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

Common symptoms that palliative care teams see in patients with metastatic breast cancer include pain, menopausal symptoms, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both palliative and hospice care focus on improving quality of life. Palliative care is available at the time of diagnosis, but hospice care is only available near the end of life. There’s often ...

The UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care (UAB CPSC), one of the University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Centers (UWIRC), was established by the Board of Trustees of The University of ...

Palliative care, sometimes called supportive care, can improve quality of life for people with chronic or other serious illnesses. People with serious, life threatening illnesses may feel as though ...

In Northern Ireland, the need for palliative care is growing as our ageing society means that more people will be living for longer, with multiple complex health conditions. The end of life charity, ...

The Midhurst Macmillan Service is a community based, consultant-led, specialist palliative care service in a rural community in the south of England. The service seeks to provide direct care and ...

Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world in its development stage and has an urgent increasing burden of cancer (1.8 every 1,000 people), with the majority of cases (70% from 240,000 ...

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 ...