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 ...

These home visits, combining affordable medical care and spiritual support, are part of Mwesige's routine with Hospice Africa ...

That little blue star is packed with symbolism. Here's what it means—and what you need to know about ambulances that sport ...

Providing End-of-Life Care Capital Caring offers hospice care and grief counseling. By Jerry Fill Thursday, September 28, 2017 ...

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Monrovia, while most children were tucked away in classrooms, 10-year-old Kebbeh Johnson and 12-year-old Telema Zayzay sat on a cracked sidewalk in Buzzy Quarter, one ...

About half of Americans on Medicare die while on hospice care. New Jersey is one of only 10 states that allow the terminally ill to end their own life with a doctor’s help.

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.

A Kansas state law that revokes a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant is now being challenged in court. Three women, one of whom is currently pregnant, and two doctors ...

Three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant in what appears to be the first such lawsuit since the ...

Nearly half of people with advanced cancer receive aggressive care at the end of life, a rate little changed from a decade ago.At the same time, use of palliative or supportive care remains rare ...

Recent movies and television shows, like “His Three Daughters” and “The Pitt,” have centered on families navigating end-of-life care, and indeed these discussions are happening in homes and hospitals ...