By Danielle The rain was coming down in torrents and my shoes were not up to the job. Nevertheless, I pressed forward along the soggy blocks. My 91-year-old patient and I had been together for some 20 years —

VICTORIA BREWSTER & JULIE SAEGER NIERENBERG When someone whom we love dies, quite naturally we grieve. We have lost the connection to our loved one. So it seems. We have lost the place in our lives where we felt safe in the knowledge that our beloved was physically accessible,

By Nona Tepper Northwestern Medicine may have found the one hospital market where investment in long-term care hasn’t paid off: affluent north suburban Lake Forest. Northwestern-owned Lake Forest (Ill.) Hospital recently applied to permanently shutter its long-term-care unit, Westmoreland

By Barbara Karnes, RN Dear Barbara, my mom recently passed away while surrounded by her kids and husband. I cannot stop replaying her last moments over and over again in my head. I know this is normal. However, she had a disease that impacted her speech and for a week before she died, she

By Liz Szabo When Annie Dennison was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, she readily followed advice from her medical team, agreeing to harsh treatments in the hope of curing her disease. “You’re terrified out of your mind” after a diagnosis of cancer, said