It's About How You Live: Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month
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It's almost that time of the year where the whole family gathers at the table and shares meaningful conversations. November also marks Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month. During this time, experts are hoping to promote family conversations about hospice as a tool for living.

Guests:

Patricia Ramsden - Registered Nurse and Director of Admissions at Care Dimensions), a Danvers, Massachusetts-based Hospice and Palliative Care organization.

Beverly Simonini - Development associate with Care Dimensions. She came to Care Dimensions after her husband, Donald, received hospice care before he passed away from ALS.

Graham Chick - Volunteer with Care Dimensions. His daughter, Naomi, also received hospice care after a long battle with cancer.

Later in the show…

With an unemployment rate of 3.7%, various industries have a tough time finding workers, especially skilled workers. Restaurants and other food services are hit particularly hard, where there is already a scramble to find enough workers to fill current openings and where the number of jobs is projected to grow 14 percent by 2028.But, a six year-old local organization is successfully working to close that gap. The Boston-based**New England Center for Arts and Technology)**, orNECAT, provides chronically unemployed adults with professional culinary and life skills training and places them in kitchen jobs throughout Greater Boston.

Guests:

Joey Cuzzi - Executive director of NECAT.

Bob Krajewski - Chef and instructor at NECAT.

Randy Brimley - A recent NECAT graduate and current bread baker at Whole Foods in Dedham.

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