Advance directives document patient preferences for future care, including end-of-life. An analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has found that older patients with an advance directive that had been uploaded ...
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Although people in Japan tend to live long lives, this does not necessarily mean they are healthier than other populations. New research from Karolinska Institutet and collaborators shows that Japanese and Swedish older adults ...
Mar 23, 2026
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Queensland general practitioners provide compassionate, holistic care to patients seeking voluntary assisted dying (VAD), but many face significant hurdles that limit their capacity to participate, new QUT-led research has ...
Mar 20, 2026
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Doctors encounter death and dying significantly more than most people. It's the price of saving lives and helping people.
Jan 14, 2026
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Gritty medical drama "The Pitt" has made a big difference in the way patients and families understand dicey issues like organ donation or end-of-life decision making, a new report says.
Jan 9, 2026
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Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer have unique needs compared with other age groups. Access to palliative care among this age group remains challenging. New research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association ...
Dec 1, 2025
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Research led by Lancaster University has revealed that the exceptional circumstances early in the COVID-19 pandemic led to distressing experiences of death and dying in care homes.
Feb 25, 2025
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In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she'd beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or ...
Aug 22, 2024
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Palliative care staff and caregivers may now need longer-term support mechanisms under a new post-lockdown public health approach, a new study reveals.
Oct 25, 2023
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People dying in UK hospitals without specialist palliative care input frequently have "significant and poorly identified unmet needs," finds a UK-wide evaluation—the first of its kind—published online in the journal BMJ Supportive ...
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