Palliative Care

A lack of end-of-life training may leave certified nurse assistants unprepared to work with patients receiving palliative or hospice care, but nursing homes must do more to cross-train and build their...

New study highlights urgent need for specific biomarkers in vascular cognitive impairment and dementia diagnosis … $3.9 million NIH grant supports research on effects of integrated palliative care on...

A new study looks at palliative care for people living with Parkinson’s disease and related disorders and found that educating neurologists and using telehealth is feasible to improve outcomes for people...

When doctors integrate palliative care into presurgical planning, more people who went in for cancer-related surgery were able to put advanced directives in place.

Aspergillus fumigatus fungus is a chromosomal superpower … DEA weighs telehealth visits for controlled substance prescriptions …  Study explores mobile app for Alzheimer’s caregiver intervention...

Home palliative care boosts quality of life for people with heart failure … N95 mask fitting tests can wait three years instead of one … Hormone made during exercise may reduce Alzheimer’s plaques,...

Even the most confident of long-term care staff, sure of their knowledge and skills, reported “notable difficulties” providing palliative and end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a...

Current palliative care models do not offer patients with advanced neurological illness the support they need to reduce suffering, physician experts contend.

Patients who die from cancer in states with palliative care laws are 12% to 18% more likely to die at home or in hospice, according to a new study.

Palliative care may be effective in managing the physical symptoms of serious illness, but it doesn’t effectively address the psychological pain that patients endure, researchers report.