Background: Patients with serious respiratory illness and their caregivers suffer
considerable burdens, and palliative care is a fundamental right for anyone who needs it …

Background: Palliative care is a medical specialty and philosophy of care that focuses on
reducing suffering among patients with serious illness and their family members, regardless …

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 …

The tendency toward “either/or” thinking (either cure or comfort) in traditional biomedical
care paradigms does little to optimize care in advancing chronic illness. Calls for improved …

A major barrier to broader public acceptance of palliative care for life-threatening illnesses
has been the reasonable presumption that forgoing aggressive treatment in favour of …

Palliative care refers to medical or nursing interventions that alleviate symptoms without
improving or preventing progression of the underlying disease. Smoking cessation …

COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and is a serious respiratory
illness characterized by years of progressively debilitating breathlessness, high prevalence …

As part of a Veterans Health Administration (VA) commitment to improve end-of-life care the
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLA) implemented Pathways of Caring, a 3 …

Palliative care is appropriate for patients at any point in a serious illness. Unlike hospice,
palliative care is not limited by prognosis and may be provided at the same time as disease …

Background: The physical and psychosocial needs of patients with chronic non-malignant
lung disease are comparable to those with lung cancer. This article will focus on chronic …