By Mallory McDuff for Next Avenue When I was in middle school, my father built a prototype of a pine casket, which fit in the palm of his hand, the wood sanded smooth…
University of Arizona Launches End-of-Life Training for Medical Professionals
By Kathy Ritchie for Next Avenue End-of-life conversations are always tough — even in the best of circumstances, like when an individual has clearly articulated their final wishes. Unfortunately, those conversations don’t always…
Ways to Be Grateful Every Day
By Julie Pfitzinger for Next Avenue Thanksgiving is the day meant to serve as a reminder to be thankful for everything we have and to be grateful to the individuals who bring love,…
Employee at Heart and Soul Hospice tests positive for COVID-19
A Heart & Soul Hospice of Wichita direct-patient care employee has tested positive for COVID-19. The employee is quarantined at home. Heart & Soul Hospice is a program of PMMA…
3 Estate Planning Mistakes to Avoid
By Mark Ray for Next Avenue With apologies to poet Robert Burns, the best-laid estate plans of women and men sometimes go awry. Consider the friend of estate attorney Roz Carothers’ client. The…
Not About the Soup: A Sister’s Recipe for Her Brother’s Last Days
By Michele Weldon for Next Avenue The trick is to whip the eggs fully and mightily with the juice squeezed from the fresh lemons — carefully so as not to drop in any…
In Life’s Last Chapter, What Matters? A Room With a View
By Sarah White for Next Avenue In E.M Forster’s novel, “A Room with a View,” an older woman and her young charge agreed on one thing: their stay in Florence…
Isolation Is Debilitating for Many Near the End of Life
By Craig Miller for Next Avenue Never have the debilitating effects of isolation been laid so bare as during the persistent COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdowns of 2020, everybody got…
Heart and Soul Hospice reports employee tests positive for COVID-19
A direct patient care employee at Heart & Soul Hospice of Farmington has tested positive for COVID-19. Heart & Soul Hospice is a program of PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America).…
Heart and Soul Hospice reports employee tests positive for COVID-19
Heart & Soul Hospice of Farmington has learned that a direct patient care employee tested positive for COVID-19. Heart & Soul Hospice is a program of PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of…