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 ...

A Palliative Performance Status (PPS) of 50% or lower at admission to SAD-CP indicated moderate to significant functional decline, confirming the critical role of nursing care in the home-based ...

Older adults who receive care at home tend not to get palliative care before they die, according to a new report published today in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Researchers evaluated ...

As Portage la Prairie continues to rely on community-based care and volunteer support for residents facing serious illness ...

Home healthcare patients, caregivers and clinicians have significant knowledge gaps surrounding palliative care, which are contributing to poorer health outcomes for sick patients, according to a new ...

Patients needing palliative care services face a ‘postcode lottery’ due to variability in commissioning services by ICBs, an ...

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Harrisburg-based Homeland Center’s community outreach program, Homeland at Home, announced this week that it will now offer palliative care services. Homeland will provide in-home palliative care to ...

When Nancy Stordahl’s mother was hospitalized in 2008 for her rapidly progressing metastatic breast cancer, a palliative care team stopped by the room one day to talk about her mother’s needs. But ...

Palliative care for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) helps you deal with the physical, emotional, and spiritual issues related to your cancer and its treatments. This type of care doesn't slow or ...

The Chapman Center is now available as a meeting and event venue. The spaces include audiovisual equipment and a catering kitchen.

With the population getting older and living well into advanced ages, the pressure to improve palliative and hospice care is ...