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The H-Word (or Why I Haven’t told the Whole World my grandma’s on Hospice)

January 28, 2020

The H-Word (or why I haven't told the whole world my grandma's on hospice)

Hospice.

The utterance of “hospice” typically unleashes a wave of alarms that pulses through a family’s social network at the speed of sound. 

Being one that works hard to avoid knee-jerk reactions and values privacy,  I have held off on informing everyone that my grandma is now on hospice.

Until now.

That’s because the more I’ve become entrenched in this caregiving journey, I have come to realize that the vast majority of people who are familiar with this word mistakenly associate it with providing comfort care to a person who is in their final days and hours. 

Yes, it’s true that society has the who, what, when, where, and how of hospice all f*#)ed up.

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· Coping with Caregiving, Quality of Life

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