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As palliative care professionals, we care for people with serious illness across all domains of their humanity — physical, emotional, cultural, social, and spiritual. Our work is not to remove all ...
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...
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 ...
ALLEGANY — HomeCare & Hospice announces the launch of a simplified, streamlined way to connect families and providers with ...
Bridges, formerly of Rapid River, Mich., was elected to the Board of Directors for the California Hospice and Palliative Care ...
As the Hospice Liaison for Dunes Hospice, Cathy Ellis of Valparaiso gets to see what a difference hospice care can make for ...
A rebrand took place in 2007 to the Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) as the word ‘hospice’ was, and still is, often understood to be ‘end-of-life care’.
In 2000, 2.4 million Americans died from all causes. Hospices admitted approximately 700,000 patients. Of those, 600,000 died while under hospice care.
Going through cancer treatment is hard on patients and their families. Vail Health’s Shaw at Home program, an at-home and ...
Clinicians surveyed note the benefits of palliative care for people with ALS, along with barriers to its integration into ...
Don’t wait.” That’s the message Wilma Erven wants everyone to hear because she’s lived it. Since the passing of her husband, ...
Dr Julia Ambler, chairperson of the Association of Practitioners of South Africa, who runs a local NPO, Umduduzi – Hospice Care for Children, said, “While palliative care is not particularly sexy, the ...