Clinicians who work at skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes can be crucial to improve the quality of end-of-life care for residents, according to a new study. Researchers examined data on ...

Cancer patients in nursing homes receive more aggressive end-of-life care than their community-dwelling peers, despite an increased emphasis on reducing treatments that compromise quality of life, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nursing home residents had a higher rate of aggressive end-of-life care than community-dwelling residents.

A hospice nurse is opening Augusta’s first inpatient hospice home, giving families a new option for end-of-life care.Stacia ...

Talking about death and dying can seem scary and full of unknowns, no matter the person’s stage in life. However, for patients with Parkinson’s disease, who have an unpredictable illness trajectory, ...

A new service has been launched to help people across Birmingham and Solihull to access specialist end of life and palliative ...

For patients with cancer and their caregivers, high quality end-of-life care is incredibly important, as one expert explained. “There has been a fair amount of research done that has shown that when ...

A physical therapist aide, or PTA, works under the direct supervision of a physical therapist to assist patients through a ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Death doulas assist individuals and families in navigating the various challenges in dying, from pain care and making medical ...