To Know Ends: Honest conversations about aging, illness, and dying well

What does it mean to live well — all the way to the end? To Know Ends is a podcast about the conversations we avoid, the care we don't understand, and the people who show up anyway. Each episode features voices from inside and outside the world of hospice and palliative care — nurses, social workers, caregivers, artists, and people who have sat beside someone they loved as they died — speaking honestly about what aging, decline, and dying actually look like, and what becomes possible when we stop running from those realities. The title means two things at once. To know ends is to understand what a closing looks like. It is also to know no ends — to discover that confronting mortality honestly doesn't shrink a life. It expands it.

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To Know Ends: Honest conversations about aging, illness, and dying well

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June 16, 2026 • Chesapeake Health Partners • Season 1 • Episode 1

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Before Victoria Ivicek ever answered the phone for a grieving family, she was one of them.

When her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Victoria watched his decline unfold faster than anyone expected. Hospice of the Chesapeake came into their home during those final six months — and what she witnessed in that time didn't look anything like what she thought hospice was. There was comfort. There was presence. There was a kind of care that didn't feel like giving up. It felt, in her words, like the opposite.

That experience brought her to the other side of the phone. Today, Victoria works as part of the clinical support team at Hospice of the Chesapeake, and she carries her father's story into every conversation she has with families navigating the same uncertainty she once felt.

Episode 1 of To Know Ends is for anyone who has ever feared the word hospice. By the end, you might not anymore.