The Therapeutic Aspects of Life Review for the Hospice Patient
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Author
Bowling, Phyllis
Date
1995
Degree
Master of Arts in Pastoral Theology
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.