Nurses play a critical role in recognizing and responding to end-of-life needs in aged care, often identifying signs of ...

The study of 2,091,954 nursing home residents aged 65 and older, during a period from January 2012 to December 2019, found that SNFists managed about 46 percent of this group.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Ben Marcantonio of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, about in hospice care, how the focus is not about preparing for death, but for living a full life.

Jiayun Xu, an assistant professor of nursing in Purdue University’s School of Nursing, is working to transform advance care planning for individuals with Parkinson’s disease, their families and ...

Credit: Getty Images. Clinicians who work at skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes can be crucial to improve the quality of end-of-life care for residents, according to a new study.. During ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has unintended consequences, with more tailwinds than headwinds, for nursing homes and ...

Patients with advanced cancer who receive earlier outpatient palliative care referrals engage more in advance care planning and have fewer ED visits at the end of life.

Town resident and new author Candace King, who writes under the pen name C.J. Shearer, recently self-published her first book ...

As the demand for end-of-life care grows, so will the gap between the care that patients need and what they receive. The Problem: Barriers To Access.

Eligible adults will also be able to indicate their priorities between comfort care and life-sustaining treatments.

In this week's Last Call, Rev. Joelle Johns serves as pastor of First Congregational Church of Princeton, talks about her ...

The total population of senior citizens is 55.8 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of that, 1.3 million are in nursing homes. That’s about 2.3%. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot, but the ...