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Correctional officers often dictate end-of-life care for incarcerated people who are terminally ill. Most states either donāt have a formal policy or are given leeway ā a big concern for families and advocates, as the incarcerated population rapidly ages.
The pandemic disrupted the massage industry. Now those who specialize in hospice massage therapy are in demand and redefining their roles.
Seattleās Northwest Kidney Centers, which pioneered kidney failure treatment 50 years ago, now pairs dying patients with hospice services, without forcing them to forgo the comfort dialysis can provide.
Elizabeth and Robert Mar would have celebrated 50 years of marriage in August. Instead, they died within a day of each other. Their two very different deaths illustrate how palliative care is changing to help patients and families cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
What began in India as a populist movement to bring inexpensive morphine to the diseased and dying poor has paved the way for a booming pain management industry. Now, new customers are being funneled to U.S. drugmakers bedeviled by a government crackdown back home.
Kathy Brandt and her wife, Kim Acquaviva, national experts in hospice and palliative care, shared intimate details of Brandtās experience with terminal cancer before her death Sunday.
Surgeons are rethinking the old notions of "informed consent." With older patients especially, a push is on to talk candidly about what a surgery will do, its risks and how it will affect their quality of life.
For a generation of LGBTQ people who lived through unprecedented social change, getting older poses new challenges ā lack of services, discrimination, neglect and even abuse.
For a generation of LGBTQ+ people who lived through unprecedented social change, getting older poses new challenges. When it comes to seeking elder care, concerns about lack of services, discrimination, neglect and even abuse threaten to reverse recent progress.
Kathy Brandt and Kim Acquaviva are both leaders in the world of hospice and palliative care. When Brandt learned she was dying of ovarian cancer, the couple decided it could be a teachable moment.
In the bipartisan opioid bill headed to the presidentās desk, hospice workers would be allowed to destroy patientsā unneeded opioids, reducing the risk that families misuse them.
The former first ladyās announcement ānot to seek additional medical treatmentā and to focus on ācomfort careā shone a light on end-of-life choices.
Vietnam veteransā wartime experiences ā and their lasting psychological toll ā can make it harder to treat their physical and emotional pain as they approach death.
A vital tradition is gaining steam as more families use the holiday gathering to discuss and document advance-care plans.
If youāre in the hospital and arenāt happy with how they are treating you, here are some simple steps to improve your situation.
Fewer than half of health care workers at a nonprofit Florida hospice had completed advance directives for end-of-life care.
As more patients receive hospice care at home, some of the powerful, addictive drugs theyāre prescribed are ending up in the wrong hands.
Only about a third of U.S. adults have advance directives in place to guide the care they receive in the event that they are unable to make their own decisions about life-sustaining medical treatments.
Despite a culture clash and lack of time and training, ER doctors see how palliative care averts suffering for elderly patients with serious illnesses.
One terminally ill man's hope to be disconnected from his respirator and donate his organs was almost thwarted, despite his best laid plans.
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