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Hospice is Not only for Cancer

By Marilyn Henry At a recent shiva call, I listened as a mourner told the sad story of her sister’s deterioration. “The hospice came in on Tuesday and she died Thursday.” This is the traditional narrow view: that a hospice is a type of care that...

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Sparky Anderson on Hospice

Sparky Anderson on Hospice

Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks, Calif. home for complications resulting from dementia. The 76-year-old Anderson was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in...

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Hospice for Dementia Patients

By Paula Span for the New York Times It’s difficult for physicians to determine with much precision how long anyone with a terminal disease can expect to live, but it’s particularly challenging when the disease is advanced dementia. “People with...

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Stein Hospice Welcomes New Rabbi

Stein Hospice and the Wilf Campus community welcome Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner. Rabbi Kinzbrunner served as a hospice chaplain and bereavement services manager with VITAS Hospice for over four years before joining our team. He has lectured...

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Hospice on the Cutting Edge

Excellent piece by Atul Gawande, MD in the New Yorker, Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on...

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Hospice = Longer Life

In a study that sheds new light on the effects of end-of-life care, doctors have found that patients with terminal lung cancer who began receiving palliative care immediately upon diagnosis not only were happier, more mobile and in less pain as...

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“Overtreated to Death”

After Roasaria Vandenberg lost her battle with cancer in the hospital in 2004, her sister-in-law, Alexandra Drane, created a website to help support a person’s option to spend their final days at home. That precious time at home could have...

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