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Santrock (text author), 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.

Once you have selected a hospice, learn as much as you can about it. One line of inquiry is in regard to social policy that affects the hospice. For example, hospitals cannot be reimbursed for providing long-term care for dying patients.  Questions to ask are listed below. Summarize your findings in a brief paper (2 pages) in which you answer at least the questions listed below. Also, comment on how well what you learned coincides with what your text reports about attitudes toward death in the United States. Determine how well the hospice or hospices you located implement what we know about how well people cope with their own or other individuals’ deaths.

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 who are 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?

 

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