Larry Beresford

Hospice and palliative care nurses play an important role in understanding the care needs of LGBT patients, honoring their journey, and promoting awareness and inclusivity within the inter-disciplinary team.

For hospices and home health agencies, home health aides are vital members of the care team. But in other models of home and community-based care, their roles may be less clear. Offering them meaningful career development opportunities can go a long way in helping to address disparities in palliative care.

Before COVID hit, Resolution Care Network – a telemedicine palliative care service in Eureka, Calif. – employed community health workers (CHWs) as an extension of its interdisciplinary palliative care team. They were the agency’s feet on the ground, its eyes and ears in the field, said CEO Michael Fratkin, MD.

The role of PAs in hospice and palliative care has been advancing over the past several years and is poised to keep growing, a great step in expanding access to palliative care to people who need it.

Interest in palliative care appears to have grown during the pandemic, but one sector still lags: rural communities. The challenges in rural care delivery are significant, but so is the need, experts say.

Palliative care experts are hopeful the COVID crisis may be waning, but remain concerned about new variants, scarce healthcare resources, and the long-term effects of moral distress among healthcare workers.

As America’s death toll from COVID-19 climbs, experts say the pandemic has transformed the landscape of loss in ways that impact our collective experience of grief — and that we need a national response.

Experts agree expanding primary palliative care is crucial to effectively supporting the growing number of people living with serious illnesses.But getting buy-in from generalist clinicians has been challenging.

Medical cannabis continues to move into the mainstream across the United States, but in many places it’s a therapeutic option that patients with serious illnesses and their families must largely navigate on their own.

Reverberations from Dr. R. Sean Morrison’s Notes from the Editor column in the June issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine, where

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By Larry Beresford A hospice house in Tennessee is celebrating its fifth year of providing a safe and comforting space for homeless

By Larry Beresford When COVID-19 began to spread across the United States four months ago, hospice and palliative care pioneer Brad Stuart,

By Larry Beresford Palliative care physician Martha Twaddle recently helped a primary care colleague conduct a telemedicine visit with two patients in

Some Louisiana families whose loved ones are dying from COVID-19 have found solace in a specialized hospice unit that is caring for

As healthcare professionals across America grapple with or prepare for a surge of COVID-19 cases, ICU placements, and deaths, many are emphasizing

Transforming the way our society approaches end of life will take a cultural movement comparable to the natural childbirth movement that reshaped