Hospice News November 26, 2025
In an arena pervaded by curative approaches, more conversation is needed about pathways to palliation.
This is the crux of a recent report from the Center for the Advancement of Palliative Care (CAPC) and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
“The dialysis population is like being on a treadmill [with a primary focus on numbers and measurements],” Allison Silvers, chief health care transformation officer at CAPC, told Palliative Care News “While there is a healthy amount of conversation between oncologists and palliative care specialists, this dialogue is lacking between nephrologists and palliative care.”
New programs such as NephroTalk — an initiative developed by Jane Schell, a palliative care instructor and nephrologist at the University of Pittsburgh — are spurring exchanges that...
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