Publications

In our current medical reality, movement of increasingly aged, comorbid and frail patients between sites of care is fraught with potential harm. Enhancing care transitions justifiably demands our attention. Witnessing the illnesses of my parents, I...

Promising new practices and options are emerging for patients transitioning between emergency departments and skilled nursing facilities or nursing homes, such as averting ED use altogether by treating the patients in place, several speakers...

Few patients with heart failure receive palliative care, although their condition often warrants it and evidence suggests it’s helpful, a specialist in geriatrics and palliative medicine told an audience at the 2018 annual meeting of the American...

The Center to Advance Palliative Care, in collaboration with the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care, has launched an initiative to build a comprehensive inventory of community palliative care programs across all service settings —...