For the woman who wanted to visit the beach but travel was impossible, employees of Carroll Hospice turned a room into a sandy getaway. For the man who likely would not live to see his granddaughter ...

Dear Carol: I’m crushed and uncertain how to move forward. My wife, 74, has spent years battling cancer with some success and a reasonable quality of life. Now, the disease has taken over her body and ...

November is National Hospice Palliative Care Month. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you choose to look at it, I had a personal experience with hospice this month. The word "hospice" can refer to ...

Nadine Arndt watched as a caregiver from Heartland Hospice lifted up her dying mother, Sylvia Owens. The caregiver held Owens' fragile body in her arms. Owens responded to the embrace. "Sylvia, it ...

When my siblings and I decided to put our father in hospice care at his home in the spring of 2021, his Alzheimer’s was near end-stage. He could barely get out of bed or dress or feed himself. Hospice ...

When hospice has become an option for people who have a life-limiting disease, many are not aware of the extent of the services provided under hospice to both the patient and the family members. The ...

Those who have seen a loved one go through hospice know how emotionally and physically exhausting the process can be for the patient and their family members. Just the simple presence of another ...

A home health care CEO weighs in on a proposed bill that would remove hospice from Florida's certificate of need program.

Difficult as the past six months have been on the living, and the terrible cost paid by those who have died, there’s another category of people for whom the coronavirus pandemic has shown little mercy ...