I came across an interesting blog today written by Judi Chamberlin, a 64 year old woman with COPD who started hospice care in December. "Life as a Hospice Patient" ... Read More

My brother is newly single. Not quite divorced yet but living alone and very ready to re-enter the dating world. He's already met someone on Match.com. If ... Read More

I've told you how the stimulus package includes $134 million for Medicare funded hospice programs and how it also effectively delays the already approved Medicare budget cuts to hospice for ... Read More

The famous (or perhaps infamous depending on who you're talking to) $787 billion U.S. stimulus package includes $1.1 billion to research medical treatments. The bill creates a council 15 ... Read More

A research study published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) reports that blacks and Asians with terminal cancer use end-of-life services less ... Read More

This post is purely to vent my frustrations over an imperfect Medicare reimbursement model for palliative care. Currently, hospice care is the only reimbursable model of palliative care in ... Read More

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Great news for those of us who are able to celebrate with our loved one, but what about those of us who ... Read More

A recent blog by Niko Karvounis on Health Beat deals with the sticky subject of for profit and non-profit hospices. Karvounis has done some respectable research looking at studies ... Read More