After watching her son, David, known as DD, die from cancer, Sacha Langton-Gilks thought about the lessons she had learned from the experience and was inspired to write a book called Follow the Child. She wanted to help other grieving parents in their struggle of coming to terms with the death of their child. When […]
The Benefits of Palliative Care Are Finally Measured
ProHEALTH, a large multi-specialty physician provider group in New York that’s part of the national health care delivery organization, OptumCare, recently conducted a retrospective analysis to quantify cost savings associated and examine the cost-saving impacts of home-based palliative care (HBPC). The results were recently published in Journal of Palliative Medicine and was to be presented […]