Hospice volunteer training scheduled to begin this month at St. Barnabas in Essex County

Barnabas Health Hospice and Palliative Care Center, a Barnabas Health facility, will host two training programs in West Orange for individuals interested in becoming a hospice volunteer in Essex, Huds

Visiting Nurses offers program to prevent falls

Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County will offer a fall prevention program called Safe Steps at the Darien Senior Center , 30 Edgerton Street in Darien, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 12:45 p.m.

Mailbag 1/6/12

A year ago this week, Scott Walker took office, beginning one of the most dreadful years in Wisconsin's history. It was truly Wisconsin's lost year, when we led the nation in jobs loss, cuts to education and health care and, of course, political division.

Funding cuts would hit services for the elderly

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald Homestead nursing home Activities Director Danah Petit, left, and resident Emma Perretti, who will celebrate her 101st birthday this month, observe sunflower photography at the Homestead in Frankford Tuesday.

Texas company accused of Medicare misuse

AUSTIN — Texas leaders awarded $2.1 million in taxpayer funds last year to the parent company of a hospice care firm that, according to allegations made by the Justice Department, misspent millions of Medicare dollars intended for the care of terminally ill patients.