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High Peaks Hospice celebrates 35 years by looking back at their beginning

High Peaks Hospice

Ann Merkel and some of the group of original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. The Start of End Of Life Care in the Tri-Lakes Area and Expanding Throughout the Adirondacks.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Poem for Older Adult Senior Communities

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Frances Shani Parker Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What’s the difference between end-of-life doula and a hospice volunteer? Beth: It depends on the volunteer. Hospice volunteers do lots of things. They’re not all end-of-life doulas.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

GeriPal

But before I became a nurse I had a long career at Procter & Gamble in brand management and I worked on the Covergirl and Max Factor business. It was my experience as a hospice volunteer that maybe leave the corporate world and go to nursing school and ultimately become a palliative care nurse practitioner.