Tag Archives: palliative care

By Rhea Go-Coloma Mary, 89, who has a history of heart failure and spinal stenosis, lives at home with her elderly husband. Over the past few ...

LOS ANGELES — More times than she can count, Dr. Carin van Zyl has heard terminally ill patients beg to die. They tell her they can’t ...

Watching a loved one slowly deteriorate with a diagnosis of metastatic cancer can be excruciating.  And, sometimes, the unknown is equally painful. But now there’s ...

As a consultant who counsels families management, Johanna Turner often shares the story of her mother’s final days 21 years ago. Thanks to the skilled ...

By Jenny Gold Kaiser Health News The American health care system is poorly equipped to care sensitively for patients at the end of life, a recent ...

More than 1.5 million patients received hospice care last year.  But palliative care providers are concerned that one-third of those patients died within seven days ...

By Brad Broker Brittany Maynard, the terminally-ill woman who moved to Oregon to legally take her own life under the state’s Death with Dignity Act, ...

By BRAD BROKER When do you want to die? Would you rather pass before illness and age take over your life or do you want ...

By Brad Broker The official cause of my father’s death was prostate cancer.  But it was only after the cancer metastasized to his bones that ...