READING recent reports about the Butterwick Hospice (Echo, May 3), I feel I must write in support of the work of the hospice movement and encourage people and businesses to maintain their giving to ...

Our agency, community and nation said farewell last week to one of the first genuine friends I made here in California (11 years ago). Madalon Amenta, 96, an early pioneer in the hospice movement died ...

Behind every moment of comfort, every reassuring conversation, and every quiet act of kindness in hospice care, there is ...

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 ...

It is likely that our remote ancestors used whatever resources they had to care for their dying companions, as evidenced by items found in excavated graves and early literary accounts. Even some ...

This content is sponsored by Capital Caring Health. Capital Caring Health is one of the original hospice providers in the country and the oldest in the Washington, D.C., area. The nonprofit started ...

It is important to keep in mind that human hospice started as an all-volunteer movement. The Medicare Benefit did not become nationally available until 1986 and even then, many hospice programs ...

Serious illness often brings a quiet but profound turning point—one that unfolds gradually rather than all at once. Patients ...