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 ...

Specialized nursing facility clinicians, or SNFists, may decrease the likelihood of nursing home residents experiencing stressful hospitalizations and improve the quality of life in their last days, ...

Please summarize your research and expected outcomes: The aim of this study is to improve our understanding of factors that influence quality end of life care. We are examining the concept of end of ...

Whilst the concept of palliative care is now more widely recognised across the world, as a service-led provision, it is still only accessed by the minority.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Access to quality end-of-life care can mean the difference between comfort and distress in a person’s final days. Yet, millions of Americans still struggle to receive the end-of-life care they deserve ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of aggressive end-of-life cancer treatment has not changed over the past decade. Physician and institutional ...

Alyssa: Since 2021, British Columbia’s annual death rate has exceeded that of the birth rate, so it may surprise you to learn ...