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

Hospice News

Empath provides hospice, home health care, primary care, palliative care, PACE, AIDS and sexual wellness care, and adult day services to a combined total of more than 23,000 individuals. We were a service family, and it was just a wonderful sector to be in,” Fleece told Hospice News. I wasn’t seeking hospice.”

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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. For now, she knew nothing about me, including the fact that I was coming that day to serve as her hospice volunteer.

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

High Peaks Hospice

You are invited to join us Friday, June 17th at 10am on the Front Porch of High Peaks Hospice in Glens Falls for the launching of Scooby Doo Pajamas! All proceeds benefit the children’s grief support program at High Peaks Hospice. There will also be light refreshments served with a gluten-free option. ABOUT SCOOBY DOO PAJAMAS.

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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. All this talk about control reminds me of my hospice patient named Rose. Are you ready to die?

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Ancestor Tribute: Hospice, Dementia Poem

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

A hospice volunteer, I admired her brown, wrinkled hands often when I visited her weekly at a Detroit, Michigan nursing home. A hospice volunteer, I lean closer, talk into your listening left ear. Visit Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog and Frances Shani Parker's Website. Her name was Miss Loretta.

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Alzheimer's Dementia Reflections (Video 4:44)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

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.