The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

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 ...

What is a “good” death? That’s up to each of us to decide for ourselves, said Anne Rossignol, former director of Mercy Hospice House. Rossignol said it’s a question more people should be asking ...

Americans tend to put off thoughts of death and dying, often to our detriment. The people at Hospice of Humboldt know something about this. They hope that we come to view death and dying as being ...

It’s a lovely place to wait for death. The Houston Hospice occupies the Holcombe House, a handsome Tudor Revival structure on the eastern edge of the Texas Medical Center. The house was completed in ...

During the pandemic, experiences of death and dying were profoundly impacted, bringing into fresh relief the question of what makes a good death. In this post we draw attention to what it might mean ...