The Hospice Insider | October 17, 2016 At some point or another we all may be touched by hospice’s end-of-life care. Because it offers the best option in the last months of life with its variety of benefits, hospice should…
The Hospice Insider | October 12, 2016 Every October an annual international health campaign, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), is organized by major beast cancer charities to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into…
The Hospice Insider | October 10, 2016 Thank you to our Readers, Clients, Partners, Colleagues, Family and Friends, we’re celebrating one year of The Hospice Insider. Anniversaries, like birthdays, are wonderful, celebratory occasions. They both are opportunities for recollections of…
The Hospice Insider | August 3, 2016 Hospices are located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The term “hospice” is from the same linguistic root as “hospitality.” It can be…
The Hospice Insider | July 18, 2016 Receiving hospice care does not mean giving up hope or that death is imminent. Hospice focuses on quality of life based on a patients individual choices and making the most of life so…
The Hospice Insider | May 16, 2016 Hospice is not a place. It’s high-quality care that focuses on comfort and quality of life. Hospice can take place in a person’s home, nursing home or hospital. No matter where the care…
The Hospice Insider | April 18, 2016 “Mortal,” a documentary that addresses the issues that affect how we choose to live in the face of mortality, was inspired by the decline of a parent of veteran award-winning director Bobby Sheehan…
triblive.com | April 11, 2016 When Gregg Robbins-Welty was 12 years old, his grandmother died alone and in pain in the sterile environment of a hospital. His grandfather died at home six months later, surrounded by friends and attended by…
St.Louis Public Radio | April 11, 2016 The term “palliative care” has been bandied about quite a bit as of late. But what does it mean? On Monday’s St. Louis on the Air, three people joined host Don Marsh to…
Times Colonist | March 27, 2016 With a committee sitting in Ottawa for the purpose of drafting a framework upon which physician-assisted death legislation will be enacted, the recent letters on the subject and the opinion piece of March 19,…