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Our colleague Barbara Karnes is one of the most well-known hospice experts in the U.S. She’s the author of a widely used booklet on end...

Sometimes patients and families are challenged by the decision to stick with home health services or choose hospice care. It’s a hard...

How’s your Self Care going? It’s been a challenge to stay healthy during the last 9 months. Now it’s time to deal with the 2020...

caringinfo.org In November we’re celebrating National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. It’s a good time to remember that not only does...

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Let’s talk about death – it’ll be fun. (Said no one ever.) Actually, someone is saying it. And Lisa Newburger of Discuss Directives...

In hospice we speak the language of the dying. I’m not being morbid. It’s just what we do. End of life care is designed to care for...

Since The Heart of Hospice podcast launched four years ago, we’ve talked about a wide variety of topics. There’s information everybody...

If you’re searching for information on a care provider in your area, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a...

Self Care. You need it. We all do. What is Self Care good for? The stress of world events, the pandemic, and natural disasters here...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the multiple changes we’ve had to make in hospice. Wearing PPE like never before, dealing with...

The Heart of Hospice, LLC It’s an understatement to say we’re going through a lot of changes as a country. The same is true for the...

Tomorrow, July 16th, is National Healthcare Decisions Day 2.0. Founded by healthcare attorney Nathan Kottkamp and sponsored by The...

When someone is facing a serious illness, management of his or health becomes a 24/7 job. Everything seems to revolve around caregiving,...

Full disclosure – I’m tired of hearing the word “non-essential” applied to people. It especially bothers me to hear the term applied to...

The things that make me different are the things that make me. – Winnie the Pooh There’s a lot of wisdom in Pooh’s statement. We’re...

Time for an update on Sunny! Sunny is a goldendoodle who came to live with my family when he was 8 weeks old. He’s about 5 1/2 months...

It seems like the whole country is grieving. Maybe even the whole world. Grieving the loss of our sense of security and safety. ...

So many things have changed. Where we can go and when. How many of us can go inside a place at one time. Whether we can visit our...

“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Every good Southern woman knows the famous line from the movie Steel Magnolias. It...