Acute and chronic pulmonary and cardiac diseases often have a high mortality rate, and can
be a source of significant suffering. Palliative care, as described by the Institute of …

Palliative care aims to prevent and relieve suffering by controlling symptoms and to provide
other support to patients and families in order to maintain and improve their quality of living …

Historically, palliative medicine has been specialized and designed to relieve or reduce
uncomfortable symptoms and suffering in anticipation of imminent death when a cure or …

Primary care plays an important role in delivering care to people who are dying. However,
providing palliative care to people dying with conditions other than cancer may be more …

The number of people with heart failure is continually rising. Despite continued medical
advances that may prolong life, there is no cure. While typical heart failure trajectories …

Hospices are organized programs of support services for patients in the advanced stages of
a terminal illness and their families. Although hospices serve dying patients regardless of …

Over the past 10 years, there has been an increasing demand for heart failure patients to
have access to palliative care services. The concerns of this group have been highlighted …

Heart failure (HF) is the most common reason for hospital admission for patients older than
65 years. With an aging population and improving survival in heart failure patients, the …

Excellent palliative care is available for patients with advanced lung cancer. Whether the
same services are available for those with nonmalignant respiratory disease is less clear. A …

An 85-year-old man with New York Heart Association class IV heart failure, hypertension,
and moderate Alzheimer's disease, who lives at home with his 84-year-old wife, is admitted …