More people over 65 are dying in hospice care and fewer are dying in hospitals. But this good news is tempered by a very different story. People are also being hospitalized more frequently in the last three months of their lives, are more likely...
Read moreThis moving video begs the question about how to broach the subject of death with children. When the actor who played Mr. Hopper on Sesame Street, Will Lee, died, the Sesame Street people decided to let the character die too, and used it as an...
Read moreWe turn to doctors to save our lives — to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what...
Read moreWith less than two months to live, Martha Keochareon teaches students about cancer and dying.
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The harp, with its soothing timbre and spiritual associations, has been revered as a healing instrument by many cultures for thousands of years. Over the past two decades there has been a renewed interest in the use of the harp in therapeutic...
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Published in the New Jersey Jewish News, featuring Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner, chaplain at the Oscar and Ella Wilf Campus for Senior Living, republished here — Rabbis across the denominational spectrum are opposed to a proposed state bill that...
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The administrative dynamic duo:Gail & Janice keep Stein Hospice on a steady course
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Longtime former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in a historic landslide, has moved into hospice care near his home in South Dakota, his family said Monday. “He’s...
Read moreThree years ago, at the height of the debate over health care reform, there was an uproar over a voluntary provision that encouraged doctors to discuss with Medicare patients the kinds of treatments they would want as they neared the end of life...
Read moreA few decades ago, children often didn’t attend funerals. The thinking was that they should be sheltered from the pain of losing a loved one. And as Americans started living longer, the need to even broach the subject of death was delayed because...
Read moreOne of the true legends of the comedy world, Phyllis Diller, has died in Los Angeles on hospice. Diller, known for her loud cackle laugh, died at her L.A. home, surrounded by family. She was 95. She had recently fallen, hurting her wrist and hip...
Read moreEugene Goldman M.D., 54, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., was charged in an alleged kickback scheme arising from his employment as a medical director at Home Care Hospice Inc., a hospice care provider in Philadelphia. Goldman allegedly regularly...
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