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Episode 31: Facing Our Fear of Death

Living With Hospice

I do have a lot of experience with hospice care, death and dying. As I've been both a caregiver and a volunteer for hospice. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. He goes, "Mitch, we get to feed it crickets and stuff.

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Episode 24: How Do I Get Off this Emotional Roller-coaster?

Living With Hospice

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Transcript: Hello, come on in and welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. But here's some typical emotions that I see in families when loved ones are in hospice care when I go visit them. We all are unique. That's important.

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Episode 26: How Do I Help The Caregiver?

Living With Hospice

He was an awesome sounding board as well for me, when I was dealing with tough issues like DNR s and, and feeding tubes and all of those emotional issues that my wife and I had to tackle about our son on his journey. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either. It was an in home hospice care situation.