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Article: Grief relief: Being part of a hospice care team helps kids deal with death.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 2, 2005
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Byline: Mel Novit
Much news coverage was devoted to the deaths this spring of Terry Schiavo and Pope John Paul II. These two gravely ill people had something in common: Schiavo spent her final days in a Florida hospice, the pope spent his receiving the kind of care normally associated with hospice. There are 33,000 hospices across the United States. But what is a hospice? Many kids _ and adults _ don't know exactly what a hospice is and what it does, yet the hospice movement is growing nationally.
A hospice sometimes is a place, but usually it is a form of care involving a group of people who come into the homes of seriously ill patients who have little ...