No matter where you are in the world the goal of palliative care workers is to provide comfort and a meaningful end of life experience. To help facilitate this, Hospice Northwest Ohio and St Luke’s Hospital Palliative Care center have…
New York planning the states first veterans cemetery
New York is one of four states in America without its own state owned veterans cemetery. While there are a few private operations that focus on serving local vets in their community, it doesn’t serve the vets at large in…
Louisiana makes steps to have statewide electronic advance planning
Care professionals continue to remind families and patrons about the importance of making end of life wishes known. However, it still remains a difficult conversation to have. One step towards making these wants known and recorded is creating an electronic…
Funeral director takes on a classic ’62 Cadillac hearse reno to wow families
Entrepreneurs are always looking for a unique offering, which can sometimes be quite a challenge for funeral homes. But Smith-Kelleher Funeral Home’s Director Tim Kelleher found his in a 1962 Cadillac hearse. The almost 60 years old Cadillac had been…
Are Kansas residents’ final resting places under threat?
Kansas Senate Bill 389 is looking to amend K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 17-1301c, an act concerning cemetery corporations. Repealing the existing definition for the verbiage sepulture. The word sepulture dates back to the 14th century, and is typically defined as a…
Ireland expecting 84% increase of people needing palliative care
Trinity’s Centre for Health Policy and Management and The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) recently conducted a study that estimates a 84% increase of people passing from a serious illness by 2046. TILDA collects information on all aspects of…
France’s new law on end of life drugs will improve palliative care
Currently, end-of-life patients in pain have to be admitted to the hospital before being able to receive relieving sedative drug, Midazolam. New regulation will now allow general practitioners to admit the pain alleviating drug to patients. Within four months general…
How to promote your personal brand via LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world and, if utilized correctly, could be the door opener for your next opportunity. Be sure you don’t miss your next career advancement by not creating clarity about your personal brand. Stand…
Initiative to built Western-Europe’s largest Islamic cemetery well on its way
Over the past decades the numbers of Muslims in Western-Europe has rapidly increased and with that the need for Islamic burial sites. A fundraising initiative in the Netherlands has collected half of the needed €410,000 ($447,521) needed for the new…
Pennsylvania is introducing a new bill requiring nursing home deaths to be reported to a local coroner
Two bills are requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to report all deaths to a coroner, as soon as possible, before moving the body. The coroner will then be responsible for determining the cause of death and decide if…