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Staff Needs: The Spaces of Hospice

Staff Needs: The Spaces of Hospice

by External Article | Jul 8, 2023 | Death & Dying, Housing | 0 comments

Hospice work suffers from the same historical undervaluing that plagues all home health labor, which has long been low-paying, often non-unionized, and relegated to women, working-class immigrants, and people of color.4 It is no coincidence that for-profit hospices...
Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle

Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle

by ProPublica | Nov 28, 2022 | Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

Half of all Americans now die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. It might be counterintuitive to run an enterprise that is wholly dependent on...

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