Hospice care became a recognized benefit under Medicare in 1983, and approximately 90% of all hospice programs are Medicare certified. As 28% of all Medicare costs go to persons in their last year of life, and 50% of such costs are expended during the last 2 months of life, (more…)

No matter where you live and in what circumstances, it’s evident that ours is a planet that has been damaged over centuries of human growth and scientific progress. The earth’s resources are limited. For that reason alone, it’s important to protect and preserve what we have from our land to our air to our water supplies. It’s especially important when you consider that surplus of twelve million new lives each year. (more…)

When my wife’s mother, “Grandma G,” died, she left us many gifts and intangibles. She also left us something very tangible, that in the immediate hour of need, was her most thoughtful gift. She had prearranged and paid for her funeral in exacting detail. This single act, greatly lowered the magnitude of stress that her death had caused. (more…)