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Palliative care services are available at most U.S. cancer centers, although the scope of services offered and the degree of integration between palliative care and oncology care varies widely among centers, according to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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More than one in four elderly Americans lacked the capacity to make their own medical care decisions at the end of life, according to a study of 3,746 people published April 1 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Meditation has been used as a complementary treatment to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and lessen pain in patients with a wide range of illnesses, but a recent study provides scientific support for the use of meditation in pain control.
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Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a neurologic condition of involuntary, sudden, and frequent episodes of laughing or crying and is quite common in patients with underlying neurologic diseases or injuries, especially those with multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Now, a new investigational treatment might help stop these involuntary outbursts.
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This issue looks at what items are included in the Health Insurance Reform Bill signed into law and what industry experts anticipate the effect will be on hospice. As implementation decisions are made, Hospice Management Advisor will cover those changes and offer suggestions on how to remain successful
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It has become ever more apparent that health care is being provided by caregivers at home. But most laypersons find themselves inexperienced in caregiving. The good news is that support for this role is growing.
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Meditation has analgesic benefits associated with creating a relaxed state of mind and enhancing the ability to moderate reactions to pain, according to new research published in The Journal of Pain, the peer review publication of the American Pain Society.
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Newspaper and magazine reports about cancer appear more likely to discuss aggressive treatment and survival than death, treatment failure or adverse events, and almost none mention end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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The latest in a series of papers published by researchers led by Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and documentary filmmaker, looks at the use of a video showing actual cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as other life-sustaining treatments often faced by patients at the end of life.