Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Learn more about this topic from our guests:
- Christine Khandelwal, DO – VP of Education and Strategic Outreach at Transitions LifeCare
- Rikki Hooper, MSN, Chief Clinical Officer, Four Seasons Care
- Lynn Bowlby, MD – Internal Medicine Specialist, Duke Health
- Michael Nichols, MD, PhD – Coastal Carolina Oncology Center – Radiation Oncology, Cervical Cancer
Additional End of Life/Palliative Care Resources
- Atul Gawande – Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Center for Advancing Palliative Care
- Advanced Care Planning from the NIH National Institute on Aging
- NCIOM Task Force on Serious Illness (PDF)
- NC Coalition for Compassionate Care