During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people unexpectedly needed critical care such as ventilators but were unable to communicate their end-of-life wishes to their loved ones. Researchers like me, who ...

How you approach end-of-life care for yourself or a loved one is a personal and important decision. You may consider hospice care, a death doula, or both to guide you during this time. Here’s what ...

Quality communication about end-of-life care ensures that medical treatments or interventions align with patients’ values and preferences.

WPTV listened to a 'death doula', or end-of-life doula, who explained how she's working to make death less scary and ease the stress and fear of people's final weeks, months, and years.

Whether or not humans are ready, AI predictions are quietly set to become part of end-of-life medical decisions. Could an artificial intelligence algorithm used for end-of-life care decisions predict ...

Literature review identified 226 unique measures from 23 measure sources, which we grouped into 64 measure concepts within 12 groups. Groups were advance care planning (11 measure concepts), pain (7), ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Baptist Health Floyd patients and families facing end-of-life decisions now have extra support through the hospital's "Three Wishes" project. Baptist Health Floyd launched ...

Over the years, music has been used to express emotions for some while creating connections and memories for others. Listening to a certain song can take people back to a specific moment. Whether it ...

The one big thing that people have in common is that we all will die, and we likely will experience the death of someone we love, too. And yet despite this shared future, death can be hard to talk ...

According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, in 2022, 1.72 million Medicare recipients were enrolled in hospice for at least one day. Hospice does not hasten death but rather ...