Palliative Care
Palliative care is the medical sub-specialty that treats the symptoms and stresses of serious illness.
In this first episode of a two-part series hosted by AHA’s Living Learning Network, leaders from the AHA and the Center to Advance Palliative Care discuss palliative care strategies, challenges and lessons learned throughout the pandemic.
Palliative care is the medical sub-specialty that treats the symptoms and stresses of serious illness.
The deadline has been extended to apply for the 2022 Circle of Life Awards: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care. The new deadline is Friday, Aug. 27.
With the remarkable advances in health care, treatments for serious illnesses like cancer and diabetes are saving millions of lives each year and helping people live longer.
Organizations that provide palliative or end-of-life care may apply through Aug. 16 for the 2021 Circle of Life Awards: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care.
The Circle of Life Awards each year recognize and celebrate innovation in palliative and end-of-life care.
Join the AHA April 27 at 2:30 p.m. ET for an Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative webinar featuring the 2020 Circle of Life Award honorees and AHA Trustee Mary Beth Kingston, chief nursing officer, Advocate Aurora Health. Panelists will discuss the link between palliative and age-friendly care…
AHA is partnering with the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and asking hospital and health system leaders to reexamine their approach to palliative care, identify patients needing additional support and build a care plan centered on the whole patient, both clinical and emotional needs.
Check out these stories of real people living with a serious illness and benefitting from palliative care.