Study: N.J. cancer patients likelier to die in hospital: Cancer patients in New Jersey are more likely than patients elsewhere to spend their dying days in a hospital receiving aggressive care such as chemotherapy, tube-feeding and breathing...
Read moreBy Marilyn Henry At a recent shiva call, I listened as a mourner told the sad story of her sister’s deterioration. “The hospice came in on Tuesday and she died Thursday.” This is the traditional narrow view: that a hospice is a type of care that...
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Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks, Calif. home for complications resulting from dementia. The 76-year-old Anderson was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in...
Read moreBy Paula Span for the New York Times It’s difficult for physicians to determine with much precision how long anyone with a terminal disease can expect to live, but it’s particularly challenging when the disease is advanced dementia. “People with...
Read moreStein Hospice Nurses discuss hospice, what it means to them and why they feel so passionate about their work.
Read moreStein Hospice and the Wilf Campus community welcome Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner. Rabbi Kinzbrunner served as a hospice chaplain and bereavement services manager with VITAS Hospice for over four years before joining our team. He has lectured...
Read moreExcellent piece by Atul Gawande, MD in the New Yorker, Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on...
Read moreIn a study that sheds new light on the effects of end-of-life care, doctors have found that patients with terminal lung cancer who began receiving palliative care immediately upon diagnosis not only were happier, more mobile and in less pain as...
Read moreA new series of videos from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization called Moments of Life puts hospice fears to rest. Watch all “Moments” videos.
Read moreAfter Roasaria Vandenberg lost her battle with cancer in the hospital in 2004, her sister-in-law, Alexandra Drane, created a website to help support a person’s option to spend their final days at home. That precious time at home could have...
Read moreA short personal video made by a hospice patient and his son. This video was made three weeks before the patient passed.
Read moreNational Hospice and Palliative Care Organization video
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