Discover how Connecticut Hospice, social workers guide patients and families with compassion, helping them navigate grief, care planning, and emotional support.
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Discover how Connecticut Hospice, social workers guide patients and families with compassion, helping them navigate grief, care planning, and emotional support.
Celebrating National Nurses Month with a look at the vital role nurses play in hospice care at Connecticut Hospice and across the country.
Hospice volunteers provide essential comfort, companionship, and support, enhancing patient care and offering families peace during end-of-life journeys.
Discover how music and art therapy bring comfort, connection, and healing to patients in hospice and palliative care, fostering meaningful moments.
Understand how adjuvant medications enhance opioid pain relief. Connecticut Hospice offers expert pain management for serious illness and end-of-life care.
As we age, our needs evolve. For seniors, these changes may include complex health conditions, mobility issues, or memory impairment, […]
Discover how music and art therapy bring comfort, connection, and healing to patients in hospice and palliative care, fostering meaningful moments.
A breakdown of the many ways that a robust volunteer program increases the likelihood that the pressing needs of hospice patients and families will be met.
Embracing masks during COVID 19 for health and fashion.
Part 2 of the Connecticut Hospice's series on the Healing Power of Nature explores signs in the natural world that bring solace to the bereaved.
Balloons, a birthday banner, ice cream cake - all good. The unexpected family visit is what made this celebration extra special.
In this series we discuss why and how nature is so beneficial to us and we share resources to help you bring some of the natural world to your own environment, wherever you are.
Discover how Connecticut Hospice is transforming home hospice care for aging Americans, as featured on CBS's Eye on America with Dr. John LaPook.
As one of the only Connecticut locations supporting both at-home dementia patients and their caregivers through the new federal GUIDE program, we are proud to be leading the way in helping families affected by dementia stay together.
Chosen for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Dementia Care Model, enhancing care coordination and support for dementia patients and caregivers.
Ct Hospice CEO Barbara Pearce shares the challenges faced by the non-profit over the last two years with Bruce Tulgan of The Indispensables podcast.
Since Connecticut Hospice relies on contributions to provide customized services and therapies that aren't entirely covered by insurance, Scot Haney […]
Florence Wald, often referred to as the Mother of Hospice in America, helped pioneer the hospice movement in America during the early 1970s.
Celebrating National Nurses Month with a look at the vital role nurses play in hospice care at Connecticut Hospice and across the country.
Hospice volunteers provide essential comfort, companionship, and support, enhancing patient care and offering families peace during end-of-life journeys.
Understand how adjuvant medications enhance opioid pain relief. Connecticut Hospice offers expert pain management for serious illness and end-of-life care.
Understanding Respiratory Failure Respiratory failure -- the inability to breathe well enough to maintain life -- is a very common […]
Learn safe methods for crushing medications for hospice patients, including which pills to avoid crushing and alternative options for effective, comfortable care.
Hospice patients often experience anxiety. Learn about symptoms, treatments, and support options to help alleviate anxiety in end-of-life care.
Music has long been recognized for its ability to evoke emotions and memories, making it a powerful tool in therapeutic […]
From clinical experiences to interdisciplinary rounds, discover how this institution shapes empathetic and skilled healthcare professionals in end-of-life care.
Opioid Use for Hospice Care: Myths, Types, and Side Effects. Explore relief strategies for pain and breathlessness in serious illnesses.
Caring for patients in a hospice setting is a nurturing and supportive effort that draws on the expertise of all members of an interdisciplinary team.
Yale's Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program sends Medical Fellows to train with the Connecticut Hospice Interdisciplinary Team.
Clinical rotations halted by COVID-19 have resumed. One Medical Fellow is also an Emmy Award-winning, piano-playing, Culinary Institute Grad.
Understanding Respiratory Failure Respiratory failure -- the inability to breathe well enough to maintain life -- is a very common […]
Learn safe methods for crushing medications for hospice patients, including which pills to avoid crushing and alternative options for effective, comfortable care.
A comprehensive guide to understanding skin changes at life's end. Learn causes, implications & strategies to alleviate distress and enhance quality of life.
Find relief and support at Connecticut Hospice's new Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic. Expert symptom management and counseling available for serious illness.
What you need to know about breathing at the end of life: different breathing patterns, treatments, and compassionate approaches for comfort and support.
Strategies for managing agitation in hospice care. Understanding medication challenges and treatment options, to help preserve the dignity of dementia patients.
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