Sue Thurston worked as a palliative care nurse during the spring 2020 Covid lockdown and has shared her experiences ...
“These strategic leadership hires will greatly accelerate our efforts to provide and support high-quality, community-based palliative care for adults and children living across the U.S. struggling ...
“What started with nine professionals has 50 dedicated doctors today, extending treatment to the needy in consultation, physiotherapy, counselling, clinical home care and palliative care ...
Leaving a pain-riddled patient to fight for access to health, palliative and aged care services after exiting hospital with a terminal diagnosis is cruel, inhumane and unfortunately a regular occu ...
It’s one of the only universal facts of life: everybody dies. That’s where palliative care, which aims to improve patients’ quality of life and relieve pain from serious and often incurable ...
This is the devastating reality for terminally ill patients across rural Australia, where the tyranny of distance transforms palliative care into an endless journey of suffering. As our population ...
Myth: Only palliative specialists can provide palliative care, once you're at the very end of life. Fact: Your primary care team can provide a palliative approach to care as soon as you receive a ...
Only a quarter of patients received any palliative care. When such care did come, it usually was provided in the month they died, results show. “Even though clinicians and professional ...
Cislo, a structural and civil engineer who worked on some of the area’s largest construction projects, died Feb. 17 in the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, Cheektowaga, after a battle ...