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Music and Hospice Volunteering

Hospice Volunteering

One of the most meaningful activities I engaged in as a residential hospice volunteer was singing to the residents. I wasn’t an official music volunteer nor was I a music therapist. Recently I received a book by another hospice volunteer – someone who plays the guitar and rarely sings along.

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Hospice Volunteer Meets Patient Living With Dementia

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

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. I only knew she was seventy-nine and declining mentally with dementia. I'm Frances Shani Parker.”

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Join us for the Scooby Doo Pajamas Book Launch on June 17th

High Peaks Hospice

You will hear some words from our wonderful author and High Peaks Hospice Volunteer Elaine Gibb, can pick up a copy of the book, and will have access to children’s and adult grief support information. All proceeds benefit the children’s grief support program at High Peaks Hospice. ABOUT SCOOBY DOO PAJAMAS.

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Fleece Takes Helm as Empath Health CEO, Begins ‘One Hospice’ Initiative

Hospice News

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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End-of-Life Dreams and Visions (ELDVs)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me?

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Dying: Being in Control (Research, Hospice Story)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Because I have been a hospice volunteer many years, people sometimes assume that my patients and I talk about death a lot. S ome people also assume my volunteer visits must be depressing because no one really wants to die. Visit Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog and Frances Shani Parker's Website. Are you ready to die?

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"Missing" - An Older Adult, Loneliness Poem

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Missing” is one of sixteen original poems at the end of each chapter in Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes. A hospice volunteer, I wrote it after witnessing the sadness of lonely nursing home residents who were missing the missing.