Hospice & Palliative Care
How the Hospice Honeymoon Helps Patients Leave Behind A Legacy
When people first become hospice patients, they often enter a stage where they can get better. Perhaps before they were confused or exceptionally weak. A… Continue Reading
Continuum Of Care Offers a Better Quality Of Life For Dementia Patients
According to some estimates, around 5.8 million people in the United States suffer from dementia-related diseases. An additional 5.6 million age 65 and older are… Continue Reading
Parkinson’s Disease: When It’s Time For Hospice Care
There is a lot of misunderstanding about Parkinson’s Disease. Many assume that it is immediately debilitating. Yet on average, this slowly progressive disease can take… Continue Reading
Living With ALS
How Supportive Care Can Help People Take Control With all the difficulties that come with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, losing control of one’s body… Continue Reading
Take Charge Of Your Healthcare Decisions
Patients and their families guide physicians on the focus of care they want to live their best life. However, if a patient hasn’t discussed that… Continue Reading
What To Expect When Your Loved One Is Dying
There are a lot of myths about the act of dying. In movies, we often see these dramatic moments where someone clutches their chest, takes… Continue Reading
Disenfranchised Grief and Why Professional Caregivers Experience It
When shopping for a sympathy card, you’ll find cards for loss of parents, spouses, children, even friends. There probably wouldn’t be a card for “loss… Continue Reading
Filling the Gap With Supportive Care
Brian Thompson calls Aug. 29, 2013, his new birthday. That was the day when the Navy veteran learned he had stage 4 non-small cell lung… Continue Reading
How Love Led The Modern Hospice Movement
A bad back and the love for David Tasma may well be the reasons behind how contemporary medicine cares for people at their end of… Continue Reading
Four Levels Of Hospice Care
One of the biggest misconceptions about hospice care is that it is a place. For the most part, people do not “go to” hospice. Rather… Continue Reading
