The Therapeutic Aspects of Life Review for the Hospice Patient

Abstract

Working with the dying person in hospice ministry, I see a great need for the dying person to reminisce. Most of the hospice patients that I work with are in mid-life or in or past the fifth decade and thus have a high natural need to reminisce. With the hospice patient there is an intensified need because the patient is looking his/her own mortality in the face. To be a hospice patient there is a six month or less diagnosis of terminality, although some patients that we have live longer than six months and some shorter than six months.