Medicare recognizes the importance of end-of-life planning and what you’d like your future care to look like. Its advance care planning benefit is part of your annual wellness appointment. During your ...

The program will take place on Sunday, Oct. 5, from 2 to 4 p.m. at a meeting of the nonprofit Funeral Consumers Alliance of Western Massachusetts. Dina will be the featured speaker. You may observe ...

How you approach end-of-life care for yourself or a loved one is a personal and important decision. You may consider hospice care, a death doula, or both to guide you during this time. Here’s what ...

Most people only hear about end-of-life care when a former president goes into hospice or when news stories report on sad cases, inspiring cases, or crimes involving hospice staff: Like the time a ...

Palliative goals were frequently not documented until the last month of life in adolescents and younger adults who died of cancer. A new study found that documentation of palliative goals of care ...