Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as has ...

Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a bed, complaining that her ...

A physician’s personal story reveals why dying with dignity in America too often requires a fight, and why end-of-life care ...

Our role is generally not to end life but to prolong it while decreasing suffering. This goal is best served by honoring the ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Access to respite services for family caregivers increases a palliative care patient’s probability of dying at home almost threefold, according to a McGill University-led study. Previous surveys ...

Experts discuss how better hospice and home care reimbursement can help patients receive compassionate end-of-life care at home. Maureen Canavan and Dr. Kerin Adelson, healthcare executive, chief ...

An agitated elephant lay on the psychiatrist’s couch. “Sometimes,” his cartoon bubble said, “even if I stand in the middle of the room, no one acknowledges me.” Worry not, Mr. Elephant. More than 100 ...