Grief and mourning are part of the normal process of dealing with a loss. Brian Greenlee, RN, MSN, Executive Director, explains how you can carry through the grief process with the help of Southwest ...

Just as newborns require a lot of care, so too do the elderly as they face their approaching death. For many, that care comes through a nurturing provider known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...