"I'll never forget the day my mother entered the residential hospice. The hospice nurse greeted her at the door with a huge smile and bouquet of fresh irises. She said to my mother, "From now on, you are the only thing that matters to us--not your disease, not your dialysis, not your diagnosis--just you and whatever makes you comfortable.' My mother collapsed into the nurse's arms and wept with relief."

- Laura, a caregiver from New York