Choosing to enter hospice care can be a wrenching decision for yourself or a loved one. Hospice is intended to help terminally-ill people live out their lives as comfortably as possible. Hospice doesn ...

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In 2021, 1.7 million Americans chose hospice services, which provide comfort, care, and support for those nearing the end of life. To receive hospice care, a patient must meet these three conditions: ...

This content is sponsored by Capital Caring Health. Capital Caring Health is one of the original hospice providers in the country and the oldest in the Washington, D.C., area. The nonprofit started ...

When my mother was dying, a private, for-profit hospice agency failed her — the assigned nurse was late for the first visit because of a staffing shortage. My mother suffered in misery without pain ...

Cedar Valley Hospice is reaching out to area businesses by offering the Caring Connections program, "It's About How You Live at Work." As one of 35 hospices selected nationwide to pilot the program, ...

After Donald Schumacher graduated from college, he took a job teaching at a high school in his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. His father, who worked at Prudential Insurance for 40 years, expressed ...

A NEW SUIT BY THE WAY, WE LEARNED IN FEBRUARY THAT HE HAD ENTERED HOSPICE CARE AT HOME. HIS WIFE JOINED HIM IN HOSPICE CARE THIS MONTH, AND SHE DIED JUST TWO DAYS AFTER THAT. SO THEIR JOURNEY TOGETHER ...

We waited nervously in the lobby of the Ely hospital for a meeting with my dad’s doctor. While we’d learned a day before that Dad — James Sr. — had cancer, we wanted a better idea of how bad it was ...

Hospice of the Red River Valley is working to make the support it offers is more comprehensive. Today and Wednesday, 35 Hospice social-work staff and counselors from all Red River Hospice sites will ...