Dying patients usually have all the emotional problems they have always had. The image of death growing up in front of them does not obliterate everything that went before. Money problems have not ...

When family caregivers have access to respite services, it increases a palliative care patient’s chance of dying in the home by almost threefold. That is according to a July study published in BMC ...

With hospitals and health systems looking for better ways to support patients with serious illness, a new resource is showing up as an addition to inpatient care teams: death doulas. Also known as end ...

A nurse who has dedicated the past four years to assisting patients in their final moments, typically in intensive care, speaks of a "spiritual shift" that occurs in a person's last few hours, and ...

A comprehensive study of nearly 6,000 patients receiving at-home palliative care found that respite care services more than double the likelihood of elderly patients dying at home rather than in ...

Most people who die in prison die alone. Programs like the one at California Medical Facility aim to prevent that. Most people who die in prison die alone. Programs like the one at California Medical ...

Death is a fact of everyone’s life—not so much our own death, which is projected into some indefinite, unthinkable, future, but rather the death of others-- of those people we care about. Usually as ...