Hot Hospice Issue

Here is a link for an article in today’s New York Times about how Medicare’s restrictive guideline that hospice patients have to be diagnosed with 6 months or less to live in order to receive benefits is damaging the hospice movement.  Since the majority on hospice are now suffering from Alzheimer’s, dementia and general decline, doctors aren’t able to [...]

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Light Up A Life

Tonight I volunteered at our hospice’s rememberance service for the people who have passed away in the past year.  It was moving to see so many people there, all sharing the experience of losing someone they love.  I’ve lost many people in my life, including all of my grandparents and several siblings.  The one loss that I [...]

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