Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega
March 24, 2023
In November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” …
Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt
August 25, 2022
Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. As Melissa Aldridge,…
How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg
June 23, 2022
Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits…
Palliative Care in A Conflict Zone: Help Us Support Our Hospice and Palliative Care Colleagues in Ukraine
June 20, 2022
Stories from our colleagues in Ukraine have been both inspiring and troubling. Staff has been working overtime with fewer resources,…
Expelled from Hospice: Podcast with Elizabeth Luth and Lauren Hunt
March 18, 2021
Hospice may not be a great match for all of the care needs of people with dementia, but it sure…
It’s Time We Started Talking Openly About Near-Death Experiences and After Death Communication
February 23, 2021
by Scott Janssen "For months as I visited Joe as his hospice social worker, he had remained silent about World…
Caregivers: Podcast with Jessica Zitter
January 7, 2021
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few” - Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki…
Palliative Care for non-cancer illness: Podcast with Kieran Quinn and Krista Harrison
October 29, 2020
In this week’s podcast we talk with Kieran Quinn, author of a systematic review and meta-analysis of palliative care for…
Advance Care Planning is So Right: Podcast with Rebecca Sudore and Ryan McMahan
October 8, 2020
Last month we published a podcast with Sean Morrison that garnered a great deal of attention, in which Sean Morrison…
Family Meetings for Patients with Serious Illness: Podcast with Eric Widera
September 10, 2020
No dear listeners and readers, that is not a typo. Eric Widera is indeed our guest today to discuss his first…