Zachary Ryan Short, 33, works 50-60 hours a week as a truck driver on dialysis in stage 5 kidney failure. He's the sole provider for his 2 daughters.

A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain ...

Objectives (1) Develop a programme theory of why, for whom and in what contexts integrated palliative care (PC) and heart failure (HF) services work/do not work; (2) use the programme theory to ...

Introduction The Gold Standard Frameworks (GSF) Committee devised Prognostic Indicator Guidance in November 2007 to ‘aid identification of adult patients with advanced disease, in the last months or ...

About half of physicians would consider euthanasia as a good or very good option in a scenario of advanced cancer or Alzheimer disease.

Renal palliative care incorporates the geriatric principles of interdisciplinary team; active medical treatment of renal complications (fluid overload, electrolyte disorders, anemia, hypertension ...

Managing End-Stage Renal Disease in the Elderly State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities Chiara Somma; Matias Trillini; Marsida Kasa; Giorgio Gentile Disclosures Aging Health. 2013;9 (5):539 ...

Studies show that the average primary care exam runs just 18 minutes long, a time crunch that can worsen care. In a 2023 ...

Cures Act expanded enrollment eligibility for Medicare Advantage to include people with end-stage kidney disease. Sometimes ...

"One of the toughest parts of caregiving is that we may have to make potentially life and death decisions for people we love," Carol Bradley Bursack writes.

The presence of renal hyperfiltration (RHF), whether it persists or disappears over time, is associated with increased risks of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality, according to a poster ...