The Rev. Edward F. Dobihal Jr., a minister and civil rights activist, was the leading force in introducing hospice care to the United States in 1973. Though hospice is widely accepted as a gentler … ...

Hospice in crisis. The most important end-of-life movement in a generation struggles in an era of changing families and prolonged deaths.

The Rev. Edward F. Dobihal Jr., a minister and civil rights activist, was the leading force in introducing hospice care to the United States in 1973. Though hospice is widely accepted as a gentler … ...

Technically, the hospice movement is part of the diverse coalition opposing assisted suicide. But people would be excused for being unaware of the hospice position since the organized movement has ...

Pearce's late father, Herbert Pearce, who died in 2011, sold the onetime Double Beach Club property that eventually become ...

The American hospice movement is thriving. Forty-two percent of all Americans who died in 2010 were in hospice care—up from 22 percent in 2000. The number of organizations providing hospice care has ...

Since the 1960s, the hospice movement has been working to give Americans more options and more choices when they reach the end of their lives. The idea is that even after we know we're dying, we ...

What's the best way to die? Longtime Houston Chronicle columnist Mike Snyder reflects on the death of his friend, and contemplates his own.

The modern hospice movement took off in the UK in the 1960s, says Allan Kellehear, a professor specializing in end-of-life care at the University of Bradford.It spread to the United States in the ...

When I interviewed Dame Cicily Saunders, the great hospice movement founder, she told me that the American method of forcing such a choice on patients and families was the fatal flaw in our system ...

Hospice and palliative care’ can provide excellent quality of life and end-of-life care for its patients and their families.