Health consequences of social isolation and loneliness include worse morbidity and mortality, and “social prescribing” is one way to intervene.

This commentary considers how to manage agitation in patients with dementia.

Despite legal protections for services for patients with LEP, some places have limited capacity to offer them.

Telehealth offers access and quality opportunities for some patients with mental illness.

Ageism is so structurally integrated and normalized in US health care that it is generally unnoticed by many clinicians. 

Uncertainty about which psychiatric interventions are palliative stems from psychiatry’s prioritization of symptom management regardless of diagnosis. 

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia can create a high disease burden for some patients, making it hard to get good outcomes.

This commentary on a case considers the course of a palliative approach to care of a patient with a serious and persistent mental illness.

This commentary on a case considers moral reasons to adopt a palliative approach to the care of some psychiatric patients.

Palliative psychiatry can facilitate compassionate resolution of ethical conflicts in end-of-life care decision making with persons with substance use disorders.