palliative care

A new report reveals that 62 percent of all people who need palliative care did not receive it, while 80 percent of all expected deaths in Australia need it.

Many Canadian children in need of palliative care are not receiving it until their final weeks or days ...

Finding meaning and reconciliation is essential to dying and living well.

Palliative care is a distinct medical specialty that helps seriously ill people live as well as possible for ...

A body dying naturally of old age or an incurable illness knows how to die in a comforting ...

Most palliative care experts urge their friends, family, and patients to complete advance directives.

Up to 90 percent of patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses report never discussing their end-of-life wishes with their physicians.

Canada's expanding assisted suicide legislation combined with countrywide insufficient palliative care resources are causing case numbers of medical ...

A Manitoba woman received medical assistance in dying on Oct. 3 because she said she was unable to ...

Delta Hospice Society (DHS) president Angelina Ireland is calling the actions of Delta’s mayor "chilling" after he urged ...

Commentary Misleading language is a friend to tyrants, for whom it works as a placebo against public unrest. ...

The Australian government has announced a $56 million (US$39.7 million) investment that would benefit some 50 to 90 ...

Gabrielle Peters is a writer with disabilities who lives on one of the lowest incomes in Canada. She ...

A B.C. hospice that found itself in hot water with the provincial government for refusing to make provisions ...

Seattle mourned the news: Elizabeth and Robert Mar died of COVID-19 within a day of each other. They ...

We may have heard it said, in that familiar hushed and somber tone, something along the lines of, ...

Despite the Supreme Court of Canada ruling, human life remains the most precious, commonly shared value of Canadians—the ...