People facing life-threatening illnesses often access palliative care to ease their pain and help with difficult end-of-life choices. But for those living in remote, rural areas, getting that ...

When you plan for end-of-life care, you give peace of mind to yourself and your loved ones. Learn what choices you’ll need to make and how to decide.

End-of-life planning—also known as advance care planning, or ACP—usually requires a person to fill out legal documents that indicate the care they would want if they were to become unable to ...

In a small home in Uganda's capital, Jane Mwesige, a nurse with a hospice that has transformed African end-of-life care, ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Ben Marcantonio of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, about in hospice care, how the focus is not about preparing for death, but for living a full life.

End-of-life discussions require talking about many vulnerable and deeply personal aspects of a patient’s values, and you’ll probably have several of these sensitive conversations with each dying ...

End-of-life care must be fixed before any assisted dying legislation, charities say. Several charities have taken a neutral stance on assisted dying but warn that end-of-life care is already under ...

As the demand for end-of-life care grows, so will the gap between the care that patients need and what they receive. The Problem: Barriers To Access.

Under this bill, physicians are not obligated to provide end-of-life care if they find it uncomfortable. The hearing, which lasted hours Wednesday, forced an often-avoided conversation about death.

Palliative care offered more than 3 months before death appears to decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care for patients with ovarian cancer. News & Perspective Tools & Reference CME/CE.

New Jersey is one of only 10 states that allow terminally ill people to end their own life with a doctor’s help. But most don’t even know this is an option.

End-of-life care demand for dementia patients set to surge, study warns Researchers called for the Government to ‘act now’. Storm Newton. Monday 16 September 2024 15:59 BST.