Deciding whether to withdraw life support after a severe traumatic brain injury is extremely difficult. Loved ones are faced with balancing their hopes for recovery with the desire not to prolong ...

With hospitals and health systems looking for better ways to support patients with serious illness, a new resource is showing up as an addition to inpatient care teams: death doulas. Also known as end ...

Primary care professionals should play a proactive role in caring for patients at the end of life, according to family medicine specialists at the National Congress of the Spanish Society of Family ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...