A need to love and be loved, including seeking reconciliation for broken relationships when needed. During three scheduled encounters, chaplains identified the patients' unmet needs in these three ...

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness. We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease.

A worsening shortage of palliative care physicians is predicted over the next 14 years. One healthcare leader suggests ways to address the crisis. Diane Meier, MD, director of the Center to Advance ...

Paul Bushong has personal reasons for supporting hospice care organizations. “I’m really a little selfish. I’m planning on taking advantage of it before too long. I’ll be 91 next month,” Bushong told ...

On his first day training as a chaplain at UC San Diego Health, Rev. Matthew Valdez was embedded with the palliative care team. His very first patient died. Shaken by the experience, Valdez ...

A 2008 study drew attention to a shortage of doctors with sufficient palliative care training to handle the anticipated demand from an aging population. Physician entrepreneur Michael Fratkin has ...

“My religion is watching CNN,” a feisty elderly woman with cancer recently told a hospital chaplain who had knocked on the patient’s door to introduce himself. The patient, in a thin blue hospital ...

Some anti-euthanasia activists see the bill as a Trojan horse that would fund training in assisted-suicide techniques. Here’s why they’re wrong. When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the ...