How hospice can help ease the last days

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s decision to seek hospice care and spend his remaining time in care at home has helped bring awareness to an industry that quietly serves people at the end of their lives. Hospice, which provides care and support services for patients who are terminally ill with a life expectancy of six … Read more

Dream of aging in place?

In 2015, the housing authority in Bath, Maine, created the Comfortably Home program after seeing the maintenance challenges that older people and those with disabilities faced in the challenge of continuing to live at home. “We kept hearing that the housing wasn’t working for the residents, but they didn’t want to leave. They’d say ‘the … Read more