End-of-life care includes plenty of laughter, Kath Murray — who's been a hospice nurse and educator for more than 40 years — ...

What's it like working as a hospice nurse? We asked an expert. (Image via Getty Images) Not many people would expect that working in hospice care would be a joyful experience. When Kath Murray tells ...

Benzodiazepines and antipsychotics increased risk of death, compared to hospice patients not prescribed the drugs The drugs are handed out to manage agitation, anxiety and delerium THURSDAY, Oct. 16, ...

Julie McFadden worked as a hospice nurse for five years and uses social media to educate people about death and dying, ...

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 ...

I’ve spent more than a decade in hospice care, sitting at the bedsides of people facing the final days of their lives. I’ve held hands in hospital rooms, in tents, in prison cells, and in homes that ...

Heart failure-related deaths in homes or hospices increased from 17.33% in 1999 to 41.15% in 2022, while those in medical facilities and nursing homes decreased. Racial disparities persist, with ...

Medically reviewed by Forest Miller, OTR/L Key Takeaways Comfort care can be part of either therapeutic care or hospice care.Comfort care can help with pain relief and other symptoms like constipation ...

For many people, the word "hospice" conjures up the mythical Hotel California in the hit song of the same name: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." That is definitely not ...

Hernando-Pasco Hospice is comforting its own following the death of Hospice volunteer, Paula Carpentieri. Carpentieri, 50, suffered a cerebral aneurysum at her Hudson home and died May 3 at a Tampa ...

It has taken over a week for me to screw up the courage to write this down.<BR><BR>A week ago last Monday my mom died of bladder cancer that spread to her hip.<BR><BR>She was 76. <BR><BR>She had run ...