Only 14% of people who need palliative care actually receive it. You may receive palliative care alongside treatments designed to cure your illness. It is possible to be eligible for palliative care ...

Modern medicine can treat and cure countless health conditions, but it can’t always repair the quality-of-life impairments these conditions leave behind. Palliative care is a health care service ...

Palliative care and hospice care often get confused with each other. While both are types of supportive care for symptom relief, they are different. Whether you need palliative care or hospice care, ...

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Dr. Mary Kae Eckert and Amy Tremblay, BSN, RN, CHPN, recently spoke about palliative care and its role with assisting patients and their families during a medical crisis at a “What’s Up Doc?” ...

Every year, thousands of families sit in hospital rooms hearing words no one wants to hear: "We have done everything we can." ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 7 analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample, the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient database in the United States, to ...

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Read on for our guide and learn if Palliative Care is something you need in your Long-Term Care insurance. Getty Images Palliative care is a healthcare approach that aims to provide comfort and ...