Meet Joani DeRocher-Gamache from Sabattus, Maine. Joani was born and raised in Brunswick. She attended boarding school in Portland up until high school. She graduated from Brunswick High School and moved to Connecticut where she
Written by: Karen Flynn, RN Retired Director of Hospice and Palliative Care at Androscoggin I can still vividly recall my first hospice patient. She was an unfortunate woman in her early fifties who was living
Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice welcomes Dr. Cynthia DeSoi, MD as staff physician for their home healthcare, hospice and palliative care programs. DeSoi most recently served as a Nephrologist at Nephrology Associates of Central Maine where
A commemorative brick terrace borders the gardens of the Androscoggin Hospice House and is dedicated as a positive and transformative step towards healing. Each brick is a quiet reminder of someone who has left an
Written by: Philip C. Hunt, ESQ. Androscoggin Foundation Trustee • Perkins Thompson For many, many years, charitable contributions by individuals were only deductible by taxpayers who itemized deductions. Those who claimed the standard deduction could
This article was originally published on cancer.org, and can be found in its entirety here: https://bit.ly/30wPiq1 How Do I Protect Myself from Ultraviolet (UV) Rays? Most skin cancers are caused by too much exposure to ultraviolet
This article was originally published on survivornet.com, and can be found in its entirety here: https://bit.ly/2OCoejH Whether you’re just beginning your cancer journey or have been living with cancer for years, it’s important to get
This article was originally written by Katherine Harmon Courage and published on NPR, and can be found in its entirety here: https://n.pr/3fNhewt The coronavirus pandemic has been a stark reminder “that things can change
This article was originally published in The New York Times, and can be found in its entirety here: https://nyti.ms/3j8JBa9 A Canadian woman was so desperate to hug her mother during quarantine that she created a