How do you behave toward patients with life-threatening conditions who do not want to know all the details of the state of their health? This question brought psychologist Liesbeth van Vliet and ...

What is Palliative Care? - an infographic for professionals to share with patients and their families, which helps to explain and demystify what palliative care means. Mesothelioma and Palliative Care ...

Both palliative and hospice care focus on improving quality of life. Palliative care is available at the time of diagnosis, but hospice care is only available near the end of life. There’s often ...

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.

Palliative care, sometimes called supportive care, can improve quality of life for people with chronic or other serious illnesses. People with serious, life threatening illnesses may feel as though ...

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 ...

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 ...