Most of us don’t grow up knowing what dying actually looks like. We see it on TV, a gentle fade, a last meaningful word, a ...

Benzodiazepine and antipsychotics — medications that are primarily used to treat symptoms like anxiety, agitation and delirium — may contribute to a higher risk of death among dementia patients in ...

A South Korean study has found that the loss of the corneal reflex—an automatic blink when the eye is touched—may predict death within 24 hours in hospice patients with advanced cancer. Researchers ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of Americans with dementia who enter hospice, their course is often long and ...