Palliative Care Resource Center

Terminal Illness and Palliative Massage

The World Health Organization defines palliative care as that which focuses on the comfort of terminally ill patients. Palliative massage is reflective of our culture’s growing acceptance of alternative methods to treat the body and mind, since it is focused not on a “cure”…

Hospice and Palliative Massage

Palliative massage may or may not be part of an entire hospice care program that the individual participates in. Hospice care is appropriate when the individual can no longer benefit from or decides not to participate in active treatment for their disease or condition.…