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Palliative care & hospice poll reveals major gaps

Written by | 18 Nov 2025

A new poll reveals large gaps in older adults’ knowledge about two types of care that could help them or their loved ones cope with a major illness… read more.

New end of life care study reveals gaps in palliative care access

Written by | 18 Oct 2025

A new study from Swansea University, UK, using population-scale data, has revealed insights into how people use health and care services in their final year of life and highlights… read more.

End-of-life care missing a key player: The psychologist 

Written by | 25 Aug 2025

Psychologists could play a vital role in helping Australians navigate voluntary assisted dying (VAD), but new Edith Cowan University (ECU) research shows there are significant barriers preventing them… read more.

Improving quality of life and end-of-life care: Standardizing goals of care notes in EHRs

Written by | 3 Mar 2025

It is important that a healthcare team is aware of and understands a patient’s goals of care, both medical and personal. But that information, if documented, typically is… read more.

Paramedics facing challenging end-of-life care demands

Written by | 17 Feb 2025

Paramedics in England are experiencing wide-ranging challenges in responding to the increasing number of end-of-life care patients they are being called out to, according to a study from… read more.

End-of-life systemic treatment for patients with advanced cancers does not improve survival

Written by | 22 May 2024

Patients with very advanced solid tumors saw no significant improvement in overall survival after receiving systemic therapy, according to a study published today in JAMA Oncology by researchers at The University… read more.

Largest-ever study of palliative care demonstrates scalable strategy to increase support for seriously ill patients in the hospital

Written by | 4 Feb 2024

Ordering a palliative care consultation by “default” – via an automatic order programmed into the electronic medical record that doctors may cancel if they choose – is an… read more.

Digital health ethics for precision medicine in palliative care

Written by | 9 Nov 2023

A new article in the peer-reviewed OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology examines the ethical, equity, and societal/relational implications of digital health technologies for precision medicine in end-of-life care. Click here to… read more.

Carers and staff delivering end-of-life care need long-term support

Written by | 28 Oct 2023

Palliative care staff and carers may now need longer-term support mechanisms under a new post-lockdown public health approach, a new study reveals. Researchers found that end-of-life care changed… read more.

Palliative care: Creating a new model to address suffering for neurological illnesses

Written by | 30 Jun 2023

Neurologic illnesses, including Alzheimer’s, brain cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and stroke, are among the most dreaded illnesses in medicine and leading causes of disability and death worldwide…. read more.

New ruling on care of dying will force some to live life “of machine-related suffering”

Written by | 28 Jun 2023

The newly revised ruling on advance medical directives and withholding/withdrawing medical support for the dying in India will inevitably force some terminally ill patients to “live a life… read more.

Machine learning-triggered reminders improve end-of-life care for patients with cancer

Written by | 14 Jan 2023

Electronic nudges delivered to health care clinicians based on a machine learning algorithm that predicts mortality risk quadrupled rates of conversations with patients about their end-of-life care preferences,… read more.

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