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

Living With Hospice

I'm not a nurse. I am a long term hospice volunteer, and I've been involved with hospice going back to my son 13 years ago, and I've been a client of several hospice organizations here in Michigan through my family, and I've seen hospice from the outside as a client as well as from the inside as a long term volunteer.

Grief 52