So first let us look into what hospice care is exactly for those who are unaware of what it is or for those who think they may know about it but not quite sure of it.
Hospice care provides medical services, emotional support, and spiritual resources for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness, such as cancer or heart failure. Hospice care also helps family members manage the practical details and emotional challenges of caring for a dying loved one.
The goal is to keep you comfortable and improve your quality of life.
Hospice programs offer services in your own home or in a hospice center. Some hospices also offer services in nursing homes, long-term care facilities, or hospitals.
Some people think that starting hospice is a last resort, that it means they're giving up on life. Some think that hospice means a lower level of medical care. But hospice is simply a type of care that focuses on the quality of your life instead of on continuing with treatment to prolong your life.
Now that is a very deep and kind of depressing thing to think of. Death is something most people try to avoid talking about and especially the talk of final days of a terminal illness.
This blog although it be about a place where people spend there last days at it is not one to bring you down or make you feel sorrow but instead to be filled with joy and hope as you take a journey into the lives of some of the people who spend their time in this historic hospice care filled with not only wonderful residents but also wonderful people who make the residents last days the best and most comfortable that they can be.
The idea behind this book came about as friends gathered to talk about the recent care one of the friend's mom had been given while she spent a short time in the hospice care. They wrote this book as a way to not only raise funds for this facility but to also make awareness of the hospice care facility and also make a lasting legacy for those who share their stories in this book.
For me reading this was quite hard on me at first as I have family in ailing health and I have the worries of one day they may be in a hospice care situation where they go to there to spend the last of their lives there. But as I read of the stories it reminded me that although these people are at the end of their lives it is not the end of their lives that make their journey it is what led them to the end of this journey. The lives they've led and the legacies they will leave behind when the unfortunate day comes and they are called home. You not only learn of them but of also the care and compassion of the caregivers at the facility whom do a hard job of taking care of these people in their final days. These people are angels here on earth who make sure that the last days of their life on this earth are as comfortable and pleasant as they can be.
If you're looking for a good read which will give you a better look of what hospice care really is rather than what the technical terms of it is, If you're looking for a book of hope and restored hope for humanity among all of the bad in the world, and or if you're wanting to learn more about this particular hospice care organization and to help raise money so that this wonderful place can continue to be around for many more years to come than I highly suggest purchasing this wonderfully written book.
The book can be found here on their website which I have listed below.
https://www.heyeveryone.com/books/20-beds--a-book-of-life-and-hope_richardson-andrew/9781910469019/17578160
I did get a digital copy of this book to read in exchange for my review but my review is solely my own and in no way influenced by getting a copy of it.
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