Benzodiazepine and antipsychotics — medications that are primarily used to treat symptoms like anxiety, agitation and delirium — may contribute to a higher risk of death among dementia patients in ...

You don't typically imagine an atheist leading people into the light in their final moments alive, but it is exactly what helped Scott Janssen cross over to side of the believers. A hospice social ...

A new study from Central South University in China examined the relationship between nursing interns’ attitudes toward death and their attitudes toward hospice care, finding that emotional responses ...

What is a “good” death? That’s up to each of us to decide for ourselves, said Anne Rossignol, former director of Mercy Hospice House. Rossignol said it’s a question more people should be asking ...

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 ...

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of Americans with dementia who enter hospice, their course is often long and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Tawnya Healy, 56, recalls the moment she realized her calling was to sit beside the dying ...

Authentic hospice care is at once highly professional and sophisticated and intimately personal. It can transform patients’ experiences and families’ lives. We must not lose this level of human caring ...

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