Palliative Care

New checklist for at-home palliative sedation

February 19, 2010

Spanish researchers have created a new checklist to help caregivers provide palliative sedation in home-care settings.
 

Obama talks about end-of-life planning as hospice providers lobby against funding cuts

June 29, 2009

President Barack Obama suggested at a town hall meeting at the White House last Wednesday that some end-of-life education and planning could help save on medical expenses. A day later, hospice care organizations asked the president to halt funding cuts for their programs.