Type of volunteer: Hos-pets Hometown: Delray, Florida Favorite place you’ve lived: Okatie home and the Florida Keys What convinced you to move to the Lowcountry? The beauty and nature. What do you do for a living? I own a vacation…

Frailty and serious illness can involve significant losses over an extended period of time, giving rise to sadness and grief for years, emotions that are typically acknowledged only after a loved one’s death, when formal rituals recognizing a person’s passing…

Music Therapy, also known as Expressive Therapy, is one of two types of complementary and alternative medicine that have shown to be beneficial for hospice patients for pain control and reducing agitation, depression, and improving their overall quality of life.…

Whether you’re a caregiver or a health care practitioner, the importance of holding space for the person who’s dying is enormously important. It allows the patient to be able to spend their remaining time in a level of quality end-of-life…

Scenes from a loved one’s final days can be moving and meaningful. Several professional photographers have been expanding their portfolios of weddings, graduations, and other larger family events to include end-of-life photography for terminal patients. One example is Shannon MacFarlane…