Hospice Care of the LowCountry

Finding Meaning as Life Ends

Most of us don’t want to hear bad news, let alone talk about it especially when it comes to our health. However, as the baby boomer generation is aging and making their way toward the end-of-life, there has been an…

Shortages in End-of-Life Care Doctors

Policy changes are key to the passage of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act to prevent a very real possibility of palliative care doctors in the next 25 years. An article in the June 2019 issue of…

When Families Keep the Truth From Their Dying Loved Ones

Larry Patten is a retired paster and currently works in a hospice facility in Fresno, California. As any hospice worker, he visits people in their homes, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities and tends to patients who have anywhere from a…