Swindon’s Prospect Hospice is facing a £1million deficit this year. (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Hospices are receiving “woefully inadequate” funding to deal with an “incoming tsunami” of patients needing end-of-life care, a desperate sector leader has warned. Chief executive Jeremy Lune is battling to prevent further cuts at Prospect Hospice in Swindon in the face of … Read more
Bhubaneswar: A light brown-coloured building, landscaped gardens, aesthetically designed interiors, a small water body within the premises, and wards named after flowers in Odia — with this backdrop, the Bagchi Karunashraya Palliative Care Centre has begun partial operations. Odisha’s first such facility, with a capacity of 110 beds, provides free healthcare to poor, terminally ill … Read more
A palliative care patient’s end-of-life wish was to see the second installment of filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s Dune before he passed. The Quebec filmmaker and his team rushed to make it happen almost two months before the film’s premiere and just days before the man died. It began in early January when a middle-aged man who was … Read more
Financial planning for old age and illness shouldn’t just focus on health insurance. You don’t have to feel helpless about your healthcare expenses or the quality of care you receive. You can take control and manage your money wisely now. In a column in ET Uma Shashikant, the Chairperson, Centre for Investment Education and Learning … Read more
New Delhi: Critically ill patients should not be admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) if they or their next of kin refuse the intensive treatment or if they have any disease with a treatment limitation plan that indicates ICU interventions will not be beneficial. This is among the key recommendations in the first ever guidelines … Read more
Dr. Geneviève Dechêne loves her work and is always on the go. The family physician retired from her office practice and now devotes her time visiting patients in the comfort of their own home. On Friday morning, after a stop at the local CLSC health clinic in Montreal’s Verdun neighbourhood, Dechêne headed out to see … Read more
On each anniversary of his patient Nicole’s death, Dr Cameron McLaren receives a message from her mother, thanking him for helping her to die. The 33-year-old woman had a soft tissue cancer that left her weak and unable to swallow. The weight of a duvet was enough to cause intense pain. After Nicole made a … Read more
Terminally ill people are facing a “cost of dying crisis” as they struggle to cope with the financial burden of end-of-life care, a charity has warned. Research by Sue Ryder found eight in ten people receiving palliative care had been unable to run essential medical equipment due to high energy costs. Of those patients, 44 … Read more