There is urgent need to integrate respiratory and palliative care

There is urgent need to integrate respiratory and palliative care 
American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC); by Maggie L. Shaw and Natasha Smallwood; 9/27/25 
Patients with serious, nonmalignant respiratory illnesses experience profound and prolonged symptoms that significantly reduce their quality of life, explained Natasha Smallwood, BMedSci, MBBS, MSc, on day 1 of the European Respiratory Society Congress 2025. “Someone with COPD, might live with, on average, 11 symptoms for a few years, which is actually far worse than living with lung cancer,” she said. ... The core concept involves collaboration between respiratory clinicians, general practitioners, and palliative care specialists to deliver a different, more holistic type of care.