‘A good death’: How compassionate care helps people navigate the end of life
10/14/25 at 03:00 AM
‘A good death’: How compassionate care helps people navigate the end of life YaleNews - Health & Medicine, New Haven, CT; by Meg Dalton; 10/13/25
Palliative and hospice care both focus on improving the quality of life of people with serious illness. In a Q&A, Shelli Feder discusses the future of compassionate care in the U.S. — and what it means to have a “good death.” The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice pioneer, Dr. Cicely Saunders, at Yale School of Medicine. ...