Hospice Care Evolves as Alzheimer's, Other Ills Raise Demand

Putting terminally ill patients at ease during their final months of life

November 4, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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Eighty one-year-old Robert Stack of Orange, Virginia, is cared for in his home by his wife, Beverly (light blue sweater), and a private nurse named Ellen Colvin (dark blue sweater).

Robert Stack of Orange, Virginia, is cared for in his home by his wife, Beverly (left), and a nurse named Ellen Colvin (right).

Beverly Stack, too, has trouble thinking of her husband's illness as terminal, but she is grateful that, at the doctor's urging, she made the call to the Hospice of Rapidan. "The nurses are giving me a lot of support," she says. "And that's what I need right now. They're here for him...and for me."

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dementia,
Alzheimer's disease,
healthcare,
senior health

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