Palliative Care and COVID: One Year In

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.

Groups Urge Developing a National Strategy for COVID-Related Grief

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.

Advancing Primary Palliative Care

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.

Navigating Medical Cannabis Is Continuing Challenge in Hospice and Palliative Care

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.

Wishing You Light in the Darkness This Holiday Season and Always

On December 21, two things will happen: It is the shortest day so the longest night of the year, and for the first time in 800 years, Jupiter and Saturn will align so closely in their orbits as to form a “double planet” when viewed from Earth.

What’s the Path Forward for Advance Care Planning?

Speakers at Virtual Symposium Shine Spotlight on Healthcare Inequities, Telemedicine

“Faces of Caring” Need Our Support, Now and Always

This month, in line with National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, we are celebrating Faces of Caring.

Finding the Right Messages for Serious Illness Care

Hospice Professionals Rediscover Resilience in their Work

Navigating Medical Cannabis Is Continuing Challenge in Hospice and Palliative Care

What I Learned From Off-the-Charts Pain