Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. This type of care is focused on providing patients with relief from symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious ...

Palliative care programs — specialized medical care for people living with serious or advanced illness — encompass a wide range of services including home care, day care, inpatient/outpatient units, ...

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 ...

During the past 20 years, the end-of-life care community has devoted its energy, resources, and time into developing the medical sub-specialty of palliative medicine and promoting integration of ...

At a social visit with a leukemia patient, Dr. Arlene Bobonich asked what she could do for her that day, terrified the patient would ask to be cured. Instead, the woman requested a hair pick. "No one ...

When you’re seriously ill, you have to manage not just your medical condition but physical, emotional, and practical matters as well. You may be in pain or too tired to get through the day. You and ...