National leaders across serious illness care and healthcare innovation join MARly to help shape the future of care at home 
PR Newswire by CIsion, Pittsburgh, PA; by MARly Health; 9/15/26 
MARly Health, the creator of MARly, the Healthspan Companion powered by Caregiver OS™, today announced the formation of its Strategic Advisory Board, bringing together leaders across serious illness care, healthcare operations, clinical research, technology, and artificial intelligence. The Board will advise MARly as the company enters its next stage of growth and continues building solutions to address a fundamental challenge in healthcare: what happens during provider visits or in a clinical setting often is less relevant to the patient's overall well-being than what occurs day-to-day at home. MARly is designed to help individuals and the people caring for them organize the realities of health and caregiving, understand what is changing over time, coordinate the activities of the people involved, and make important information more useful and accessible when healthcare professionals become involved. ...
The Advisory Board of MARly includes:

• Cory Chevalier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
• Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, FAAHPM
• Juan-Carlos Monguilod, MD, HMDC, FACP, FAAHPM
• Bethany Cox Snider, MD, HMDC, FACP, FAAHPM
• Vivek Dhayagude
• Ernesto Lopez, BSN, MBA, RN, FACHE
• Drew Mihalyo, PharmD

LifeCare Home Health & Hospice Family launches new website to make finding home-based care easier 
The Best Times, Irving, TX; by LifeCare Home Health Family; 9/14/26 
LifeCare Home Health & Hospice Family has launched a new corporate website designed to make it easier for patients, families, referral partners and healthcare professionals to understand LifeCare's growing family of companies and connect with home health, hospice and in-home care services in their communities. Introduced earlier this year, the new website at lchhfamily.com serves as a centralized digital resource for LifeCare's network of locally operated healthcare organizations.

LeadingAge CEO to step down in 2027 
Hospice News; by Jim Parker; 9/15/26 
LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit and mission-driven providers of aging services, today announced that President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan will step down, effective March 31, 2027. Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge, will step down effective March 31, 2027. Smith Sloan has led the association of nonprofit aging services providers since 2016. She previously served as LeadingAge’s COO, beginning in 2002. To date, the organization has not named a successor.

Aviva Senior Living partners with Empath Tidewell Hospice to support Tikvah, Sarasota’s first Jewish hospice program 
NEWSnet, Sarasota, FL; by EIN Presswire; 9/15/26 
Aviva Senior Living is proud to partner with Empath Tidewell Hospice, Sarasota’s leading provider of end-of-life care, to launch a new Jewish hospice program called Tikvah. Led by Sepi Ackerman, Director of Jewish Community Development at Tidewell Hospice, Tikvah is the first program of its kind in Sarasota. It offers specialized services to honor the wishes of Jewish patients and help keep them comfortable during their final days. ... The program provides many services, such as service boxes that bring religious traditions like Shabbat to a patient’s bedside, on-call clergy through a coalition of local rabbis, Jewish vigils, Jewish music, and more. Patients and families can join Tikvah for free as part of their existing Tidewell care.

Effective palliative care for hospice transitions
JAMA Internal Medicine; by May Hua, MD, MS, Miguel Cid, MPH, Claire Barshied, PhD, Rachel C. Shelton, ScD, MPH, Grace Hu, MPH, Natasha Stekl, MPH, Carrie Brill, BS5; Elise C. Carey, MD, and R. Sean Morrison, MD; 9/14/26 
Question: What factors impact the ability of palliative care teams to affect hospice use for patients with metastatic cancer?
Findings: In this qualitative study across 6 sites with interviews among 93 clinicians and patients, institutions with high and low performance in hospice use exhibited substantive differences in the relationship between palliative care and oncology teams. At high-performing sites, the relationship was characterized by mutual trust and respect, warmth and familiarity, and empathy for each other, while at low-performing sites, the relationship was characterized by a lack of trust and familiarity as well as negative regard for each other.
Meaning: These findings suggest that the relationship between palliative care and oncology teams is a modifiable factor that could affect care delivery and patient outcomes.

How nurses fit into the modern healthcare team 
World Business Outlook; blog; 9/15/26 
... Care is rarely delivered by one expert acting alone. It is built through constant coordination, quick decisions, and a steady flow of information between professionals. In that shared space, nurses often become the people who connect everyone else. ...

• Nurses as the Team’s Real Time Connectors ...
• Working With Physicians as Clinical Partners ...
• How Nurses Coordinate With Pharmacists ...
• The Link Between Nursing and Rehabilitation ...
• Advocates for the Patient Experience ...
• Nurses and the Human Side of Clinical Efficiency ...
• Preparing for a Role That Keeps Expanding ...

Family caregivers are the unsung heroes of many Granite State homes 
New Hampshire Union Leader; op-ed by Julie Stone; 9/15/26 
... According to AARP, nearly one in four New Hampshire adults serve as a family caregiver, providing care that is often unpaid and largely unseen. Together, they contribute hundreds of millions of hours of care each year. Without them, many older Granite Staters and individuals with serious illness would be unable to remain in the homes and communities they cherish. Yet while family caregivers provide extraordinary support, too many are carrying the burden alone. Many are balancing caregiving with full-time jobs. Others are raising children while caring for aging parents. ...

When a friend becomes a caregiver 
HealthDay; by Paula Span; 9/14/26 
... “The number of older adults who have never married or are divorced has been increasing, so we have more people aging alone,” said Deborah Carr, a sociologist at Boston University who has investigated these trends. “The proportion who are childless, by choice or not, is also growing,” she added, and families with children have fewer of them than in past generations. Geographic distances or family estrangements also fuel the need for other kinds of caregivers — roles that friends or neighbors can fill. How commonly do friends step into caregiving gaps? A recently published study in JAMA Network Open, led by researchers at the University of Michigan, looked into friends and neighbors serving as caregivers, usually in supplementary roles. ...

How to shift from spotlight to lighthouse leadership 
Forbes; by Julie Kratz; 9/13/26 
Leadership is no longer measured solely by individual achievements or how loudly you market your accomplishments. Instead, the trajectory of your professional growth and long-term talent retention relies on how effectively you elevate those around you. Building an environment defined by trust, equity, and sustainable performance requires a fundamental pivot in how managers view their role. ...  When leaders transition away from self-centered management styles, they elevate workplace culture, strengthen allyship, and dramatically accelerate their own career impact.

Financial mistakes and exploitation in dementia 
GeriPal; podcast with Lauren Nicholas, Duke Han, Jason Karlawish; 9/10/26 
Difficulty managing money is often one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, frequently appearing years before an official diagnosis. This loss of financial capacity leaves individuals vulnerable to costly mistakes and exploitation, threatening the financial security and quality of life of entire families. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Dr. Duke Han, and Dr. Jason Karlawish to examine the intersection of cognitive decline, financial decision-making, and patient protection. We covered a lot of topics, including these key ones: ...

Every nurse is an advocate 
ONS | Voice; by Brenda Van Sambeek; 9/15/26 
... Advocacy happens when we raise a safety concern, help a patient overcome barriers to treatment, mentor a new colleague, or suggest a better way to deliver care. Most nurses advocate regularly; we simply may not think of those actions as advocacy.
Why Nurses Needs a Seat at the Table ...

When you're good to others, you're best to yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin