This study examined a novel intervention, dignity therapy, designed to address psychosocial and existential distress among terminally ill patients. Dignity therapy invites patients to discuss issues ...

Helping dying patients to relive and record important memories and thoughts may ease the distress many feel at the end of life, according to a new study. Researchers found that this “dignity” therapy ...

The question-and-answer exercise, more impressionistic in design and goal than the mere accumulation of resume facts, is crafted to allow dying patients the ability to convey not just what they did, ...