Few moments as a hospice social worker have unsettled me more than the night I made an on-call visit with Cliff after his wife Reba died. With many family members in the home, I was there to provide a listening ear, assess for concerns, and respond to questions such as how to tell t...
She needed someone to come care for basic health care tasks, but a private nurse was out of their budget range. I suggested we contact hospice care. “But that means I’m dying,” said the woman whose bladder cancer had spread throughout her body and into her brain. “Maybe you are,...