Palliative care is an approach to healthcare that focuses on relieving pain and other distressing symptoms while providing psychological, social, and spiritual support to people living with serious illness. It can be offered at any point in the course of an illness and provided alongside curative or other active tre…
Palliative care is an approach to healthcare that focuses on relieving pain and other distressing symptoms while providing psychological, social, and spiritual support to people living with serious illness. It can be offered at any point in the course of an illness and provided alongside curative or other active treatments, with the aim of improving quality of life for both patients and their families. Palliative care is delivered by interdisciplinary teams and extends its support to caregivers and relatives, recognizing that serious illness affects whole families and communities. Research within Palliative Care And Hospice addresses these dimensions of care. Reported work includes palliative care for cancer patients and their relatives in community-based psychosocial support settings, the effects of music therapy on the mood of family caregivers and care staff in a palliative care ward, and knowledge and research needs for end-of-life care among older people in long-term care. Related studies on caregivers and on confronting concerns surrounding death further reflect the field's attention to comfort, support, and quality of life. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to palliative care and the support of patients and families facing serious illness.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 6 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Palliative, linking to each citing work.