Palliative Care

Bipartisan Senate caucus asks CMS to support palliative care in assisted living … Calif. top court to consider employer liability for COVID infections in employees’ families … USPSTF recommends against...

“I do not know that you understand what it feels like to say, ‘no’ to treatments, aggressive interventions or medications and ‘yes’ to the finality of death. It isn’t until you have to speak...

Palliative care is an often-misunderstood term, even for patients and providers who believe they understand what it is.

Clinicians should consider spirituality as a potential target for improving patient-centered, clinical outcomes in these patients, the authors of a new review contend.

Patients and family members are better able to consider end-of-life care recommendations when their healthcare provider focuses on changing expectations rather than on changing emotions, researchers have...

Behavioral nudges increase COVID-19 vaccination … Older adults with prostate cancer often die from cardiac diseases, COPD … Level of amyloid beta in mid-life blood test may forecast Alzheimer’s risk...

A new online tool can help frail older adults and their clinicians estimate six-month life expectancy and better plan for end-of-life care, according to real-world studies from Canada.

People who never wear masks are twice as likely to get COVID, poll shows … CDC: mRNA vaccines found to reduce COVID severity in breakthrough infections among vaccinated people … Knowledge of palliative...

Telemedicine has had measurable clinical effects on residents, including reduced emergency and hospital admissions, reductions in physical restraints, and improved vital signs, nurse-researchers have found.

A study that followed residents through all stages of emergency department transfers and care has found that certain comorbidities and levels of stress can predict subsequent recovery from symptoms.