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The Heart of Hospice Volunteers

Hospice 101

“Many of our hospice volunteers don’t even realize the impact they have on the lives they touch”. Volunteers are valuable members of our society. Volunteers are found everywhere! Volunteer Appreciation WEEK is April 19-25. And then, there are the hospice volunteers.

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Hospice Volunteer Meets Patient Living With Dementia

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

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. I only knew she was seventy-nine and declining mentally with dementia. Visit Frances Shani Parker's Website.

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Is Death Often More Pleasant Than We Imagine? (Research, Good Death Video 2:49)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

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.

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Kinship Care: What is it?

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

He was admitted immediately and later placed with other AIDS patients in an isolated section of a nursing home. She said she wanted to see him before he died and that she was busy taking care of her husband, her children, and being a waitress. This was my first major introduction to hospice care.

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

High Peaks Hospice

The Merkels keenly felt the lack of compassionate care options for the dying. So Ann and David decided to do what they could to start hospice services locally. In 1982 Medicare authorized reimbursement for hospice care. Jimmy Bevilacqua served as the required compounding pharmacist available 24 hours/day.

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