November is Hospice Care Awareness Month. When a loved one has a terminal illness that is imminent or could happen soon, many people have questions about what comes next and how to best support and ...

10,000 Americans reach the age of 65 every day. Though many older adults are in good health, there are many others who are facing significant health challenges. When a loved one receives a diagnosis ...

To respond to the emotional fallout sparked by this winter’s onslaught of fire, mud, and boulders, Hospice of Santa Barbara had to double its number of intake workers — from one to two — and bring on ...

Hospice is underutilized by patients with hematologic malignancies (HM), and when patients are referred, they are typically more ill, hospitalized, and with shorter length of stay (LOS) than patients ...

When my mother prayed - when she remembered what prayer was - she asked every saint to please let her die in her sleep. In late 2016, my mom died that way, in her own bed, one week past her 101st ...

Cindy Garcia, the lead intake coordinator at Hospice Maui, was recently awarded the 2025 distinguished service award for non-clinical support staff by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii. According ...