On April 27, 2017, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop on Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Serious Illness Care.

Many patients expect their primary care providers to take the lead and rely on their expertise for guidance in making decisions for the best care. Unfortunately, many primary care practices are not ...

The American Heart Association has issued a new scientific statement recommending that palliative care principles be integrated into the treatment of patients with critical cardiovascular disease at ...

Although it is associated with dying, palliative care is an approach focused on improving quality of life – or how people feel about and respond to facing a life-threatening illness. Palliative care ...

Though the obstacles are many, it’s worth the effort to provide palliative care to patients with heart failure, according to a new paper from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA). The consensus ...

Palliative care and hospice are two types of care offered to people with serious medical illnesses. Provided to anyone, at any stage, who is continuing curative treatments and would like support ...

Palliative care sees the whole person, and not just a set of symptoms, says Italian physician Adriana Turriziani. Turriziani noted that one of the beautiful things about palliative care is that the ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurological disease affecting 1.5 million Americans. The modern success of pharmacology and deep-brain stimulation surgery to treat the motor ...

On April 27, 2017, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop on Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Serious Illness Care.