Hospice Volunteering
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
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.
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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High Peaks Hospice
JUNE 10, 2022
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.
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
MAY 1, 2022
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.”
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
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?
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2022
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. Visit Frances Shani Parker's Website.
Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog
JANUARY 1, 2023
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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