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T A Welk

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An educational model for explaining hospice services.

Explaining the concept and philosophy of hospice can be difficult. There is a reluctance in our society to openly address dying/death issues; there is a reluctance on the part of many health-care professionals to look beyond physical issues. The following model has been used successfully to explain hospice to both the general public and health care professionals. It is not intended to introduce hospice to a patient/family during the initial referral/assessment visit.

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The hospice volunteer: a person of hospitality.

Volunteers are integral members of the hospice interdisciplinary team. They are distinguished from other members of the team only by role, not by expectation. The distinction is not between "volunteer" and "professional," because every team member is to be professional in the best sense of that word. If a distinction is to be made, it is that some hospice staff members are salaried while others donate their services. Volunteer staff members are expected to be as responsible and accountable as every other member of the team. ALL staff members must realize the importance of taking care of personal needs in order to be able to care for others. Even though the following article deals primarily with the volunteer hospice staff member, the points outlined can just as easily be applied to the salaried staff member.

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Hospice and the AMA.

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Life-support and end-of-life questions: treatment or intervention?

Advances in medical care during the past hundred years have been phenomenal. Before modern times, little could be done to overcome life-threatening situations from injury, trauma, or disease. Most interventions were counterproductive; they did more harm than good. It has been during the last 30 years that medicine has been able to save more lives than cause death.

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