by admin | Mar 19, 2026 | Bereavement, Hospice, Patients, Uncategorized
For more than 45 years, Hospice Austin has been the setting for some of life’s most meaningful moments — final goodbyes, gentle celebrations, quiet reconciliations, and even unexpected sparks of hope. This month, we are honored to share a story that blooms beautifully...
by admin | Dec 11, 2025 | Hospice, Hospice social work, Patients
At Hospice Austin, we often witness the power of human connection in its most profound form. Recently, a patient at Hospice Austin’s Christopher House shared a simple but deeply moving wish: he longed to speak with his sister, whom he had lost touch with many years...
by admin | Nov 19, 2019 | Advance Directives, Hospice, Uncategorized
About six months after he lost his 47-year-old wife to cancer, John McDonald received a notice in the mail that Hospice Austin was starting The GIFT Project to educate both the community and the medical profession about the importance of advance directives. The GIFT...
by admin | Nov 18, 2019 | Caregiving, Hospice
I met my friend, Michelle, almost two years ago shortly after she had been diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Michelle’s childhood was scarred with unreliable, abusive adults and, not surprisingly, the early part of her own adulthood was riddled with addiction and a...
by admin | Aug 20, 2019 | End-of-life care, Hospice, Uncategorized
Not many nonprofits in the Austin area are able to boast about retaining the same executive director for 25 years, but Hospice Austin can! Under Marjorie Mulanax’s leadership, Hospice Austin has grown from serving 300 patients a year to serving nearly 400 patients a...
by admin | Apr 9, 2019 | Being Present, Caregiving, Hospice, Volunteering
I showed up for my afternoon shift at Hospice Austin’s Christopher House where my mother-in-law died more than 15 years ago. The walkway is made of bricks. Many of them contain names and life dates of people who had died at the hospice. Recent rains had caused dirt,...
