Children suffering chronic, life threatening illnesses have a host of special needs. These needs are often met by hospice organizations, but few of these are equipped to deal with the specific and important needs of child patients. Many advocacy organizations are working to make specialized pediatric hospice care more readily available and easier for families [...]

Recent studies show that more than 25 percent of all Americans will die in a nursing home. Nursing home residents die from the same causes as the general population, including heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other illnesses. However, nursing home patients often have other, more specialized diseases that caused them to require nursing home care, [...]

Patients residing in long term care facilities, often called sanatorium, institutions, or sanitarium, should not be overlooked by the advantages that a hospice program can provide with facing the end of life. Working together with the staff at the long term care facility, hospice teams can provide important added services including expert pain management and [...]