Assignment Help-Hospices in your Community

Assignment Help-Hospices in your Community

Hospices in your Community

Santrock indicates that most people die in hospitals, but that increasingly people are turning to hospices as a context in which to die. Is this happening in your community? Find out by determining whether there are any hospices there. These may be located within hospitals or adjacent to them; or they may be found in nursing homes or nursing care centers.

Select one local hospice program and learn as much as you can about it.  Arrange a visit if possible. Questions to ask are listed below. Summarize your findings in a brief paper in which you address the issues listed below.

Questions:

What is the nature of the group that runs the hospice?

How does the hospice serve the needs of the dying person and the person’s family?

Does the hospice do anything to teach the meaning of death to the person who is dying and people close to that person?

What services does the hospice provide for the survivors?

How does this relate to who can afford hospice care?

Who uses the service?

What type of hospice care would local groups provide if the governmental policy and financial constraints did not limit them?