Patients in hospice care receive support and help from caregivers such as loved ones and friends, or from professional caregivers, in a care-support facility. But what happens to the pets of those who enter hospice? What happens when their owners…


According to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, in 2014, a larger proportion of hospice patients died or were discharged within seven days of admission when compared to 2013 and a larger proportion of patients died or were discharged…

My superpower would be to turnmean to nice; cruel to compassionate. Type of volunteer: Board of Directors, community outreach, and events volunteer Where is your hometown: We lived so many places while I was growing up. My parents are from…

What’s the craziest deathbed confession you’ve heard? Do people plan out their last words? These are questions former hospice chaplain and author Kerry Egan gets asked over and over again. “The questions don’t actually match up with what typically happens…