Death and dying

Why So Many Long-Married Couples Die Close Together

While death rarely brings pleasant feelings, from time to time we’ll see a story about death go viral on the Internet because...

Many caregivers watch their loved ones endure a long, slow decline that will eventually end in death. As they age, we grieve...

Many of us feel honored to provide care for our aging parents or ill spouses, but this honor can also present serious...

Dear Carol: My mom has advanced lung disease as well as late-stage Alzheimer’s. We know that there are no cures for either...

Jen has been caring for her parents for almost two years and she is quickly approaching caregiver burnout. A close friend booked...

There’s no getting around it: being a family caregiver is bound to impact how you think and who you are as a...

We live in a society that tends to value what we do over who we are. If what we do isn’t highly...

There are many options for the care of our aging parents, but most of them are costly. There was a stretch of...

Over the course of 15 years, five of my elderly loved ones lived, for various spans of time, in a nearby nursing...

When the paperwork was finally signed to get hospice care for my dad, I was grateful. There would now be a routine...