Home-based providers are seeing tangible benefits from incorporating palliative care services as part of their offerings, but ...

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, which was established back in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter.It's a chance to raise awareness and open conversations about ...

As the population ages, more people may prioritize pain relief over treatment that puts a burden on the body when they become ill. It is hoped that everyone will be able to live out their lives ...

Most people who die in prison die alone. Programs like the one at California Medical Facility aim to prevent that.

Prosecutors accused the former nurse, who was arrested in 2024, of playing 'master of life and death' over mostly older ...

A new poll reveals large gaps in older adults' knowledge about two types of care that could help them or their loved ones cope with a major illness or the end of life: palliative care and hospice.

Sr. Dorothea Foley, Sisters of Mercy, Tralee and formerly of St. Brendan’s Park, Tralee and California, USA.

A German court on Wednesday sentenced a 44-year-old former nurse to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of killing ten ...

Grief is a universal experience, quiet and heavy, often carried in silence. It lingers after loss, in the memories that resurface uninvited, and in the moments when words fail to comfort. Yet within ...

A German court on Wednesday ordered a life jail sentence to a palliative care nurse for the murder of 10 patients and ...

Prosecutor says nurse gave fatal overdoses because he was working in a profession he never wanted and could not bear seeing ...

Conclusions: There is a potential mismatch between what clinicians identify as important in determining palliative care need and final eligibility determinations. Patients with dementia were less ...