palliative care

The new First Commerce Center for Compassionate Care will provide eight patient rooms in a comfortable, home-like setting with accommodations for loved ones.

New rules would reinstate most of the online prescribing rules for controlled drugs that were relaxed due to COVID-19. Critics say exceptions should be made for people in hospice care or those who qualify for medically assisted suicide.

The end-of-life benefit costs billions a year. A new approach aims to eliminate waste and weed out bad actors, while making the care more inviting to those who most need it.

Hospice care is treatment designed to make patients comfortable in their final days. It is usually home-based and reserved for those declared by two physicians to be terminally ill, with six months or less to live.

Investors are banking on increased demand in death care services as 73 million baby boomers near the end of their lives.

On this episode, What's Health Got to Do With It? hopes to clarify what’s what when it comes to long-term disease management and end-of-life care.

Canada is set to expand access next year, but human rights advocates say the system lacks safeguards and is prompting doctors to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.

Private equity firms are seeing opportunities for profit in hospice care, once the domain of nonprofit organizations. The investment companies are transforming the industry — and might be jeopardizing patient care — in the process.

Hope Hospice executive director Samira K. Beckwith offers a sense of what it’s been like providing care during the pandemic.

With many Americans dying of COVID-19, it's important to document your wishes for your care should you get seriously ill. Doing so can ease the way for family in difficult moments.