Lori Burkart Frank interviews Mary Ann Davis, Marketing and Events Manager and David Franco, Board Chair from Foothills Compassionate Care, recently known as Hospice of the Foothills. Why the name change? Mary Anne and David share the wide variety of services available from our local non-profit, including Hospice, Palliative, Bereavement, Education, Thrift store and more. Foothills Compassionate Care is the Umbrella name of all these services. In recent years for profit organizations are providing hospice. Foothills Compassionate Care, our local non-profit is in a position to provide so much more.

Lori Burkart Frank talks with The Deck Deck co-creator and Licensed Clinical Social Worker for Hospice, Lisa Pahl. Lisa is passionate about having conversations about death and dying so we can live our lives more fully. The Death Deck provides opportunity for deep insight, laughter and connection.

Lori Burkart Frank interviews past guest, Anne King, about the dos and don'ts in picking an executor for our estate. She shares two distinctly different experiences, including finding out she was an executor for a friend after he passed. In this conversation there is food for thought on what we might want to consider in the legacy we leave, once we are gone.

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Estate Attorney, Dylan Hendricks about the differences in a Will, Trust or Probate. What happens to our estate once we pass? What are the benefits to our loved ones when we plan ahead?

Host Lori Burkart Frank plays the Death Deck game with guests, Gregory Ingram, Chaplain for Hospice of the Foothills and Katie Haskett, Social worker for Hospice of the Foothills. The death deck is a game that provides a fun, interesting and provocative way to discuss a variety of topics around death.

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Dr. Anya Stanger, Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies of Sierra College and Dr. Kathleen Taylor, Chair of Sierra College Gender Studies. They discuss caregiving in relationship to gender, hospice and transformation. In particular they discuss hospice in the prison system provided by inmates and the transformation occuring.

Hospice Nurse Julie is an internet viral sensation who talks about her work as a hospice nurse in Southern
California. She found there is an insatiable desire for knowledge about the end of life.

Host Lori Burkart Frank talks about Palliative Care with Michelle Tagg of Hospice of the Foothills and Lauren Swinney, Palliative Care Manager at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.