How Speech Pathologists Can Enhance Communication with Seriously Ill Patients
A speech pathologist shares how she works with seriously ill patients, and offers ways for palliative care teams to consult with and integrate speech pathology into their practice.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) releases a Dementia Model
The GUIDE Model focuses support on family caregivers.
What Palliative Care Teams Need to Know When Caring for a Veteran
A Veterans Affairs (VA) clinician explores important ways that a palliative care team can meet the unique needs of veterans.
Integrative Palliative Care: An Emerging Field in Palliative Medicine
Explore how evidence-based integrative medicine therapies and palliative care intersect to expand the healing toolkit for patients with serious illness.
Want to Strengthen Connection Within Your Palliative Care Team? Try Narrative Medicine
All about narrative medicine, including how to implement this team-building activity at your organization.
How to Provide the Best Care for Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs)
A third-year medical student, who developed inclusive curricula for UMass, offers suggestions for clinical encounters with patients with IDDs.
Screening for Delirium: What Clinicians Should Know
Part one of a two-part blog post that explores the ins-and-outs of delirium, including risk factors, screening, and more.
Managing Delirium: What Clinicians Should Know
Part two of a two-part blog post, which covers how to manage delirium in patients with serious illness, including behavioral strategies and more.
Addressing Tension Over the Future of Telehealth in Palliative Care
Palliative care physician highlights the value of telehealth for her patients, and the team’s operation.
How to Identify and Treat Fatigue in Our Patients with Serious Illness
Two palliative care clinicians provide the ins-and-outs of assessing and treating fatigue in patients with serious illness.
How a Full-Risk Payment Model Powers an Illinois Home-Based Palliative Care Program
Advocate Aurora's model allows clinicians to provide the most appropriate care for their patients—without jumping through insurance hoops.
Caring for Undocumented Noncitizens: The Palliative Care Team's Role
A background on barriers to care for undocumented noncitizens—and seven ways palliative care teams can improve care for this population.