November is Hospice Care Awareness Month. When a loved one has a terminal illness that is imminent or could happen soon, many people have questions about what comes next and how to best support and ...

When my mother prayed - when she remembered what prayer was - she asked every saint to please let her die in her sleep. In late 2016, my mom died that way, in her own bed, one week past her 101st ...

Hospice is underutilized by patients with hematologic malignancies (HM), and when patients are referred, they are typically more ill, hospitalized, and with shorter length of stay (LOS) than patients ...

Nerissa Barnes said she always knew her mother was a strong person, but she found out just how strong when the 87-year-old surprised her doctors and survived a bout with the coronavirus. “They ...

As we reflect on the recent passing of our beloved mother, we pause to contemplate how we become orphans, albeit aged ones. It is a difficult plight that our baby boomer contemporaries are now ...