Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life of people with serious or life-altering illnesses. Each person’s care varies but can involve physical, psychological, and educational elements.

Lupus is a chronic (long-term) disease that can cause inflammation and pain in any part of your body. It’s an autoimmune disease, which means that your immune system — the body system that usually ...

Hospice and palliative care both aim to minimize discomfort from serious illnesses. However, there are key differences between the two. The key difference between the two types of care is that, in ...

Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for persons with serious illness and their families. Over the past decade, 1 the field has undergone substantial ...

Medicare covers palliative care for people with long-term and terminal illnesses. Coverage includes inpatient and outpatient services and mental health care. Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage ...

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 ...

When you’re seriously ill, you have to manage not just your medical condition but physical, emotional, and practical matters as well. You may be in pain or too tired to get through the day. You and ...

Each year in the United States, approximately 50,000 children die and 500,000 children cope with life-threatening conditions. Worldwide these numbers are in the millions. 1,2 Such children and their ...