Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes - Softcover

Frances Shani Parker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932690352 ISBN 13: 9781932690354

Publisher: Loving Healing Press, 2007

Synopsis

All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death. Improving and expanding hospice services will require systemic changes in healthcare institutions, outreach to diverse populations, and funding. With the inclusion of hospice programs in nursing homes, dying with dignity becomes even more important. Millions of aging baby boomers heighten the urgency for better hospice care and conditions in nursing homes.

About this title

From the Author:

The writing of this book rose from a restless literary hunger that confronted me with the urgency for promoting positive conversations about end-of-life healthcare, death, and nursing homes. An inner-city Detroit hospice volunteer for nine years, I ventured weekly into nursing home worlds where many patients lived final phases of their lives. Insights gained through my experiences became the food source for this book. Including both general and racial-ethnic minority perspectives, I wrote these stories, poems, and commentaries to feed inspiration and information to readers about hospice, nursing homes, caregiving, dementia, death, and bereavement. 

Death is a necessary portion of life. As America's buffet of populations continues to increase in age and diversity, important end-of-life concerns crave our attention. This book offers solutions for savoring, so we can all be nourished by gourmet satisfactions of dignified death journeys.

 

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About the Author:

Frances Shani Parker is a writer, consultant, and hospice volunteer. Her writing has won awards from Writer's Digest, the Poetry Society of Michigan, the Detroit Writer's Guild, Broadside Press, and the New Orleans Public Library. Among publications including her work are Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University), Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (Chicago State University), Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (AARP), and two United Nations Dialogue Through Poetry Anthology e-books. Among venues at which her poems have been read are the International AIDS Conference in South Africa and Artists Among Us, sponsored by the Michigan Wayne County Council for Arts, History, and Humanities. A former school principal, Parker has had essays and poems published in the educational arena, particularly on service learning, a teaching and learning method that connects classroom learning with meeting community needs. She has been honored as Outstanding Educational Administrator by the Metropolitan Detroit Alliance of Black School Educators and Educator of the Year by the Wayne State University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, an international, professional fraternity for educators. Parker s website www dot FrancesShaniParker dot com

About this edition

• Publisher: Loving Healing Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1932690352
• ISBN 13: 9781932690354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212