SAN FRANCISCO -- Most patients facing death say they want to die at home. A palliative care program helped patients do that and also lowered health care costs, preliminary results of a Kaiser Permanente study showed.Boschert, Sherry
PCA, Palliative Care Alliance, is your health care partner.We’re a team of medical professionals whose expertise is care management for patients who have an acute or chronic health condition. With physician oversight, nurse assessment, and social work support, this goal-oriented care management ...
A home-based palliative care program was developed between twolocal commercial payers and a not-for-profit hospice. Not only did this program improve symptom management, advance directive completion, and satisfaction, but it also facilitated the transition of patients into hospice care, when ...
Ennoble Care delivers personalized senior in-home care, offering primary, palliative, and hospice services to support your health in the comfort of your home.
Palliative care is specialized medical care that provides comfort and support to patients who face serious illness or life-threatening illnesses, primarily due to aging. Many refer to palliative care as “comfort care,” as its’ goal is to alleviate the symptoms of pain and stress associated wit...
Despite the widespread recognition of the need for new models of care to better serve patients at the end-of-life, little evidence exists documenting the effectiveness of these models. To evaluate the effectiveness of a palliative program for end-of-life care. A comparison group study was conduc...
Palliative Care Innovation is the homepage of McMaster Professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Hsien Seows research projects, including CAPACITI.
We provide palliative care and support for people with a life-limiting illness to relieve pain and improve their quality of life.
Palliative care embodies a holistic approach to care that focuses on symptom management of individuals with incurable diseases, whereas end-of-life care specifically focuses on a period of time, such as the last 6 months of life, where a rapid state of decline is often evident. The purpose ...
The interRAI Palliative Care (interRAI PC) assessment instrument provides a standardized, comprehensive means to identify person-specific need and supports clinicians to address important factors such as aspects of function, health, and social support. T