Only 14% of people who need palliative care actually receive it. You may receive palliative care alongside treatments designed to cure your illness. It is possible to be eligible for palliative care ...

Palliative care, sometimes called supportive care, can improve quality of life for people with chronic or other serious illnesses. People with serious, life threatening illnesses may feel as though ...

Despite advances in medical care, many children still die throughout the world, making education in pediatric palliative care a universal need. Lack of provider and patient–family education has been ...

This article is part of our series on demystifying palliative care, where experts explain the process of end-of-life care in Australia. A diagnosis of a serious illness has a multitude of consequences ...

In the last months of my mother’s life, before she went into hospice, she was seen at home by a nurse practitioner who specialized in palliative care. The focus is on improving patients’ quality of ...