palliative-care

James Haskell has revealed the heartbreaking moment he decided to stop treatment for his sick father.

Some seriously ill patients improve on hospice. About 1 in 16 patients enrolled in hospice care lose eligibility as a result. Here’s how to get appropriate care after receiving a terminal diagnosis.

(TIME) – “How do you sum up a lifetime of loving somebody into a sentence or two?” she says. The answer, according to people who spend their careers alongside the dying, is that you don’t have to. There are words … Read More

BackgroundPalliative care offers solace, mitigates pain, and enhances quality of life. However, individuals with mental diseases have inadequate access to palliative care and encounter various barriers during the process. As the need for palliative care is expected to rise significantly in the future, palliative care must be considered a global health priority for healthcare professionals to upgr…

For over three decades, Jean Kutner , MD, MSPH, distinguished professor of medicine at CU Anschutz School of Medicine , has provided and studied palliative care – specialized medical care that focuses on improving quality of life and reducing suffering for people with serious illness and their caregivers.

An ACS study published in JAMA Network Open finds palliative care remains underused among young adults with advanced cancer. Despite increased use over time, only 18.3% received palliative care in 2023, underscoring the need to expand access to supportive care services.

For many cancer survivors, cannabis has become part of how they manage symptoms such as pain, nausea and anxiety.

Ask people what they want at the end of their lives, and overwhelmingly the answers will revolve around comfort, dignity and time at home with loved ones. Yet the U.S. healthcare system often thwarts these wishes. Most Americans say they want to die at home, but only one-third do. What could be an intentional last […] The post Most Americans prefer to die at home, but the US healthcare system oft…

The global cancer burden is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years, providing considerable difficulties to healthcare systems around the world. While clinical practice frequently focuses on physical symptoms, there is a growing awareness that integrated, patient-centered care, particularly for patients at the end of life (EoL), can be critical for their wellbeing by addressing all …

(The Dispatch) – Since doctors told Sasse six months ago that he had three to four months left to live due to Stage IV metastatic pancreatic cancer, the former senator and college president has become something of an expert on … Read More

(The Guardian) – My husband, Craig, didn’t want to spend his last days in the hospital. His fight with bladder cancer then became a battle to get him hospice care at home Nearly three months after that day in the … Read More

We all will die one day. Surgeons need to be able to discuss death and what care at the end of our lives looks like.

(The Free Press) – ‘I don’t want my little girl to die,’ Cissy Dekker said about her 19-year-old daughter, Iris. ‘But out of love, I also don’t want this life for her.’ The symptoms began early in Iris’s adolescence. In … Read More

(NYT) – Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily. Within a few years of that, Ms. Lawson could utter only a string of unintelligible sounds and had lost … Read More