Results for Hospices

In addition to high rates of disability and psychological issues, some vets facing the end of life are confronting long-suppressed memories of the traumas of war.

A pilot project in Ventura County has trained paramedics to assess whether or not hospice patients need to go to the hospital.

Exactly a month after our wedding day, she was gone – leaving a huge hole in both mine and our son Isaac’s life.

June is National Aphasia Awareness Month, so what better time to discuss hospice as it relates to this condition? Aphasia is a communication disorder.

(May 26, 2015)Spouses of patients receiving hospice for three or more days more frequently reported reduced depression symptoms, compared to surviving spouses of patients who did not receive hospice, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published online today in JAMA Internal MedicineThis is the first national study to examine depressive symptoms as an outcome…

Doctors said the blood disorder sepsis would stop a woman’s heart, so they sent her to hospice last Thanksgiving to die. But her daughter didn’t believe the diagnosis and her doubt saved her mother’s life.

It is often helpful if a child has an activity to do while visiting a loved one who is receiving hospice careWhen someone important in a child’s life is receiving hospice care, it can be challenging to know how best to support that child. Many parents wonder if their child should be allowed to visit a patient who is dying. Would visiting be too scary or tarnish the child’s happy memories with that person? Would not having a chance to say goodbye…

Do you know how to properly bathe someone under hospice or palliative care in Los Angeles?: Every day the nursing staff providing

Alexian Brothers Hospice and College of DuPage offer culinary grief therapy sessions, classes that specifically teach cooking for one techniques.

Hope Hospice based in Dublin is using robotic pets to help give dementia patients comfort, especially during times of isolation of the coronavirus pandemic.