Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD Without dialysis, people with kidney failure may live only days or weeks.Palliative care focuses on reducing pain and addressing emotional, social, and ...

Higher psychological resilience, assessed years before death, is linked to lower rates of depression, fatigue, pain, and incontinence at the end of life.

The effort to better understand and toimprove thecarereceived by those at the end of life will require better information about dying—not just about the demographic characteristics and health ...

In a recent episode of the popular HBO Max medical drama “The Pitt,” an emergency department nurse moonlights as a death doula for a woman with terminal cancer. While birth doulas have become a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...