When the news recently broke that Jimmy Carter, who first announced he had metastatic melanoma in 2015, was entering hospice care, many media resources reported that the former president "decided to ...

There are many reasons people avoid talking about hospice care. Some people fear medical settings. Some think it’s too expensive. Others don't want to discuss — or face — their own death, or that of a ...

As the 2008 economic crisis dominated headlines from late 2007 onward, several countries, including Greece, experienced drastic cuts to public health sector spending. During the crisis, the IMF ...

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. An illustration of a magnifying ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part article. To view Part 1, click here. Claim #6: Diagnosis per se may worsen the patient's distress. The authors argue that, "...labeling distress as abnormal may in itself ...

In this issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Dr. Meera Balasubramaniam discusses rational suicide in older adults, a desire for suicide in the absence of diagnosed psychiatric ...

New research shows that most disabled seniors are relatively happy with their lives. "These folks are not doing badly," says senior investigator Alexander Smith. "Their quality of life, as they rate ...