Palliative day program looks to grow

Dr. Anis Lakha (left), Dr. Peter Edmunds and Jane Webley, in the garden at the new North Shore Hospice, discuss plans to expand the North Shore Palliative and Supportive Care Day Program to four days per week, as well as reach more patients.

Interim HealthCare Announces Expansion Plans In New Jersey

SUNRISE, Fla., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Interim HealthCare, the nation's leading home care, hospice and healthcare staffing franchise, announced today it is seeking to expand its presence into New Jersey. ...

Program brings music to nursing homes, hospice care

ST. LOUIS — A smile from a young child battling cancer was all it took for Maheetha Bharadwaj to begin her "Smiles with Music" project, which enlists teen volunteers to bring music to nursing homes and hospice care. The idea came to her while volunteering at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Maheetha, then 14, would sometimes spend time waiting for her mother, a physician, by playing piano in the lobby of ...

East Coast Hospice plans to be discussed

Plans for a new £4m hospice to provide better end-of-life care for people in Waveney and Great Yarmouth will be discussed at a council meeting tomorrow.

Nurses deal with the final days

Gwen Singer, a palliative care nurse for South Auckland's Totara Hospice for 15 years, is visiting Enesi Puni, who is dying of prostate cancer. It's a cheerful encounter. "You live until you die," says Singer, by way of explanation.