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Friday, March 30, 2007

Hospice and Palliative Care for the Homeless

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Every urban city has them somewhere. Viewed too often as invisible humanity, they watch their cardboard requests for help filter through soc...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Hospice Volunteers for Pets: Pet Food Recall

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With the recent mass recall of toxic dog and cat food, pet owners across the country have agonized over their pets’ health. Many owners bomb...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

Nursing Home Technology

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Part of the culture change that many look forward to seeing in more nursing homes is supportive of technology as a means of providing resid...
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Hospice Volunteer Humor

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Whenever I tell people I’m a hospice volunteer, they usually respond with strong empathy for the difficult and sad work I must be doing...
Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Michigan Hospice Volunteers: A Documentary (Audio)

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Hospice Chronicles: Care for the Patient and Family is an audio documentary produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Pr...
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Friday, March 2, 2007

Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes (Audio)

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Around the country, public awareness grows regarding registered sex offenders’ whereabouts, including the fact that many live in or work as ...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Service Learning: Hospice Volunteer Medical Students

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Service learning is a teaching and learning approach that connects classroom learning with meeting community needs. It is not the same as c...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Louisiana Road Home Program and Seniors

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A New Orleans native, I want to share information on what is really going on there, particularly with senior citizens. Keep in mind that the...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Final Exam Book Review By Detroit Hospice Volunteer

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Dr. Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality , is a doctor who "gets" it. She understands tha...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Celebrating Nurse Aides, CNA’s and Nursing Assistants

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They go by several names. During my hospice volunteer rounds in Detroit, I tend to say “nurse aide,” maybe because it’s older and easier to...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Alzheimer's Association Safe Return Program

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I have had many hospice patients with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. One thing I have learned is that I never know the boun...
Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Hospice Volunteer Cemetery Story

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This story is from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes. When Mamie Wilson (pseudonym) became my h...
Sunday, February 4, 2007

Red Hats in Nursing Homes

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Increasing numbers of nursing homes are opening up to creative ways for spicing up patients’ lives. But I was still a little surprised the ...
Thursday, February 1, 2007

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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A recently published book that stands out in my mind these days is Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black ...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Hospice Care and People of Color

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An African American, I am aware of many healthcare disparities experienced by people of color. Recognized and documented by the American Med...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Changing the Culture of Nursing Homes

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As a hospice volunteer in Detroit nursing homes for nine years, I have become very familiar with the kind of culture that is predominant in...
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