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Hospice workers are highly trained to take care of those who are no longer able to care for themselves. Yet when it comes time for someone to put a loved one in hospice care, many of us become very reluctant to do so. Not only are these people complete...

Community Care “When mainstream social work has got diverted into care management and become bureaucratic, palliative care social work has managed to preserve and go on developing that holistic approach that combines the emotional, psychosocial...

nursing home, healthcare providers, allied healthwith only two torpedoes. Then test it on your vision by dropping individual drop into your eye. You will feel a of a sting. Keep adding a torpedo up to the sting is not really that severe or so that it...

Click here for reuse options! A former hospice social worker reflects on his own father's death and how to add meaning to the last moments of a life. The following is an excerpt from the new book Caring for the Dying: the Doula Approach to a Meaningful...

By Araceli Martínez Ortega, La Opinion/New America Media LOS ANGELES – When Gil García García began to feel a sharp pain in his left foot, he didn’t think it was important. “Two weeks later, I could...