Caregiving

In many ways, Beth Bischoff-Taylor is like any other mom of a young child. She shares lots of pictures and videos of her son, Miles, on Facebook. She excitedly trumpets …

While grieving a loss, you learn a lot about what helps or hampers healing.

Sometimes dying is full of confusion, fear, regret, denial, secrets, and chaos. Grief and conflict swirl through the person dying as well as through their family and friends. Decades of …

Music is an inextricable part of the human experience. We hear it in the womb, we play it as we say goodbye at funerals… and increasingly, music is used in hospice to …

Not every boss will encourage you to take a day off and go to the beach – or get a massage, or eat a pint of ice cream in front …

Being with people at the end of life as a volunteer caregiver with Zen Hospice Project for the past 15 months has felt like finding home.

This Is Terminal is a series dedicated to opening conversations around death and dying. In this interview, we learn from the unique perspective of Nikki Hernandez, a certified clinical aromatherapist who works with …

This Is Terminal is a series dedicated to opening conversations around death and dying, and how acknowledging our mortality can help us live better. In this interview, we learn from the …

Today’s hospices are adding new therapies to bring their patients comfort and relief in their final days. One of these therapies is massage. We talked to Tami Legler-Roberts, a hospice …

“…it is a unique and rare privilege to be in the presence of death, to face this ultimate reality of life right in front of me.”