By 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
Read moreby Alicia von Stamwitz In the E.R., I greet my father with a kiss. He is propped in a sitting position on the gurney, struggling to breathe. The doctor explains what I already know: my father’s heart is weak, his kidneys are failing and his lungs...
Read moreThe New England Journal of Medicine that addresses end-of-life phobia in a very good article by Benjamin W. Corn M.D. that we wish to share with the Wilf community. In the article, Dr. Corn discusses the difficulty, as a doctor, of facing...
Read moreWelcome to the Stein Hospice Blog. This site is intended to present information, support and discussion about palliative care and hospice. Though many of the posts on this site will pertain to the Stein Hospice, many of the concepts will...
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