Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
MAY 1, 2022
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. For now, she knew nothing about me, including the fact that I was coming that day to serve as her hospice volunteer.
Hospice News
JANUARY 13, 2023
In 2011, he co-authored the book “The New Age: The Future of Health Care in America,” with the futurist David Houle, which examined the ways the system could evolve in the coming years. . But what brought him to hospice was the bereavement care he and his family received following a loss.
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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Hoping to inspire a conversation about facing death, he let photographer Joshua Bright take pictures of his last days on Earth at home in hospice care. John Hawkins had a good death.
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
JANUARY 3, 2022
This was my first major introduction to hospice care. Frances Shani Parker Frances Shani Parker is author of Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and off-line booksellers.
Living With Hospice
JULY 5, 2020
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. I'm not a nurse. We all are unique.
Living With Hospice
AUGUST 26, 2020
I am a very experienced person who's been a caregiver and a longtime hospice volunteer. I've been on the inside and on the outside of hospice. And in my experience, they're very few in hospice care either. A few years ago, the hospice I was volunteering for accepted a patient in the far north end of our county.
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