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Hospice Volunteer Meets Patient Living With Dementia

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Henrietta was going to be my new hospice patient, my first at this particular nursing home. Later, she would become my first patient whose health improved so much she was discharged from hospice care. I only knew she was seventy-nine and declining mentally with dementia. Visit Frances Shani Parker's Website.

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Is Death Often More Pleasant Than We Imagine? (Research, Good Death Video 2:49)

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Interesting results of these studies are the following: The first study revealed that blog posts of near-death patients with cancer and sclerosis were more positive and less negative than the simulated blog posts of non-patients. In addition, the patients' blog posts became more positive as death neared.

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Kinship Care: What is it?

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He was admitted immediately and later placed with other AIDS patients in an isolated section of a nursing home. She said she wanted to see him before he died and that she was busy taking care of her husband, her children, and being a waitress. This was my first major introduction to hospice care.