The Hospice | Episode One | Full Documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2018
- We met Jill who has a terminal brain tumor along with some young hospice patients.
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My eldest brother passed away in a hospice at the age of 31. The nurses were amazing.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
I'm in nursing school and people think I'm crazy when I say I want to be a hospice nurse. The dying deserve SO much dignity and happiness.
Absolutely!! I think being a hospice nurse would be a much needed and important field.
Good luck to you, I know you'll bring happiness and comfort to many 💜
You are not crazy. Go for it! I am planning to volunteer at a hospice
God bless you, thank you for having such a giving heart! You will do much good for your patients.
You're not crazy, you are kind and have so much love to give. I wish you much success 🙌
When Nurse Linda called the old fella “sweetheart”, I started sobbing. I couldn’t get to my own father in time when he began to pass away from metastatic prostate cancer. I hope the end-of-life nurses treated my Dad with the same level of kindness as Nurse Linda does with her patients. When your big strong Dad becomes tiny and almost childlike due to such an aggressive and cruel disease, there is something in you that wants to love them almost like a newborn, not to disrespectfully infantilize them, but the first stage and last stage of natural life seem parallel each other in such strange ways, and my Dad, who lost his own mother as a child, and spent the rest of his life pretending not to be affected by it, near the end (in the last month), there was something in his eyes that looked like he was looking for her in the room. Sorry for the run on, I didn’t expect to feel such a big feel today, and the way she said “sweetheart” undid me.
I know ! Me too. My mother was in a care home because we could not do it when she could not walk on her own anymore and she had Dementia from several strokes and it was getting worse. She slipped into a coma and Hospice took care of her at the care home they were wonderful to her. There was two Medical Assistants asked if they could come in and see our Mom. They each held her hand when they came by and told her that they loved her. My heart ❤️ when they were so sweet to her. One was a African young man from Nigeria or somewhere like that. I loved when he would call her Dorothy with his accent. The other one was a young lady who was 25 but looked like she was 16 called her mom. A care home is a hard place to work for. My sisters and i were always there every day. Rotated lunch or dinners. But one of us always ate with her so she knew she was not Abandoned. So many of them were. No one coming to see them very much. I know it is hard with family’s and all. She was in there for 14 months. And my sisters and I got marriage proposals and I think we adopted several as moms and dads 🥰 Thank you god for the caring people who work Hospice and the hard working nurses and Medical Assistants 🙏🏼💕
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Oh how i wish the US had care like this..Hospice is wonderful but it's for dying. I have stage 4 Cancer and thought i wanted to be at home but if we had this here, i would change my mind very quickly. The US doesnt care about healthcare, mental health or nutritional needs. God bless these wonderful Angels.
These people are beautiful. Hospice really restores one's faith in humanity.
Hospice workers are incredible 😊❤️
The sister of Jill is just wonderful. I am the oldest of us 3 girls and am on my own now . No husband now. When I was found to have breast Cancer in 2016 they both were my rocks. The sister 3 yrs younger than me took me and sat with me at chemo. Little sister came and stayed the nights with me for about 4 days after because of side effects. After each treatment. Anna took me for the surgery. Donna brought me egg drop soup. 🥰They both took such good care of me ! Mom and Dad and God gave me the best Sisters !!💕🙏🏼 They also came together in 1974 when I gave birth to a stillborn baby girl and was in shock. Strange that they are and have taken care of big sister. Sorry I got off on a sister story.
Bless Chef Daniel. Such a guenuine, caring person. He understands that it's not about the food, it's about helping a vulnerable person feel safe in the small, comfortable details.
I have fond memories of the chef at a rehab hospital I recovered from my spinal cord injury at.He was always the first person I’d see in the morning. I have a gluten allergy so he would cook me special meals and always stock my mini fridge with yogurts and herbal tea which were the only 2 things I’d eat besides ice cream and Italian ice. He even researched my illness to come up with ways he could support me and help my appetite(I had lost 80lbs in weeks).The cooks in this reminds me of him
It’s lovely that this hospice looks after and cares for these people
Huge kudos to the catering department staff. Food is a common thread among people and also a social bridge, so for them to ensure that a patient can eat the same meal as their companion-even if it’s puréed-touches my heart. The thought and kindness of that seemingly tiny effort makes a mountain of difference to the patient and their dining companion, it’s a glimmer of normality in an abnormal situation. I teared up when they said that, such genuinely caring and kind people.
Such special people, especially working with the children. I couldn't do it, it would destroy me. Thank goodness there are people who can.
Some are born to. Some can because they have already had a close suffering or death. Sometimes suffering brings a strength that you wouldn’t believe.
Everybody in the hospice are absolute angels, but I think the kitchen staff are wonderful. How lovely that they bother how much food matters to the patients. All of hospice staff cannot be paid what they are worth.
It looks like things were cooked fresh too...not institutional food!
Watching this really gives me a different outlook on hospice,I understand it’s not a place to die but a place to live,thank you for opening my eyes 👀
I live in long term care in Canada and it feels more like a place to die and these videos show hospice as a better of the 2 to live in.
I'm a day patient at my local day care hospice, or was until this damn virus descended on us, and I cannot praise the team highly enough. It's been almost a year since my last visit and I just cannot wait for it to reopen. I currently attend just one day each week, for 6 hours, but the time is so precious to me. I live alone and apart from the home help who comes to me for one hour each week I rarely see anyone else, and as I am becoming less mobile and due to COVID can't go outdoors. My faith in hospice never wavers and can only repeat what was said in the film, hospice IS a place where patients live, it's not predominantly about death. I highly recommend the service hospice provides. PLEASE, support them as much as you are able to.
I hope you’re well John and I also hope that the hospice reopens ASAP for you.
@@SkairimIzWin ... Thanks, Jack. I'm as well as my circumstances allow, and there's always others in far worse situations. I would imagine/hope that hospice will reopen by around beginning of Summer. I receive my 2nd vaccine in May so would be pretty much good to go by then, all being well.
@@popazz1 Fantastic to hear and that’s a great mindset to have! I’m looking forward to things slowly (and safely) reopening. Any semblance of normality after the last year is appreciated.
I hope it has reopened up for you
My partner has a progressive illness and this has made me feel more at ease about possibly using hospice for respite - ty xx
Please do consider it!, They really are amazing places x
Documentaries like these really make you appreciate life and make the most of it.
I work in a nursing home and very often we are accommodating End Of Life residents. We do all we can to make them comfortable and happy. It's a shame that due to covid restrictions we can't open doors to their families who obviously would love to spend their their waking our next to them.
I used to assume hospices were like some other care homes where you would just spend your last days, weeks, months just sat in a chair or doing the same thing day in day out ans have no life. But this has comforted me now seeing how different they actually are. I have several illnesses including wilsons disease, progressive multiple Sclerosis ans ehkers danlos syndrome and this makes me a lot more comfortable to be able to want to go to a place like this should I need it in the future. I've been told of things keep progressing how they have over the last couple of years I may have about 10 years left if lucky. But if they can somehow manage to slow the progression I could even have a good 15 years. My goal is to hopefully manage to see my youngest get to 16 which is in 13 and a bit years from now. I always wanted to have end of life care at home but now i think I would be happy to go to one of these places and that way because I have round the clock care but in a way that makes you feel more normal rather than just someone who's dying. I want to be treated like a person and not just a patient and this is what these people do :).
They sometimes do part time of either.
It’s personal choice, but sometimes culturally it’s best in the home, because the memories are at home.
Sometimes the family don’t want the final end-of-life memories in the home.
Going home at weekend might be great, so family don’t panic in the week that you are alone. Sometimes people are home with you.
I absolutely agree that the staff at hospices have a great deal more caring for patients and the families of the patients. From experience when my husband was sadly dying the four weeks he had in hospital were awful but as soon as he was admitted to the hospice things were calmer and the staff were lovely. I got to stay with my husband even though he was only in the hospice 4 days but we were able to relax. Yes it is a sad thing knowing what being in a hospice means but they make the patients as comfortable and pain free as possible. I know my husband was free of pain at the very end. I was comforted as my husband passed away and afterwards too. I was even allowed to have my husband stay with me for a short time after he passed before they took him to the cold room. I was allowed to see him in there too as someone had come to see him that wanted to say goodbye. A very big thank you to all hospice staff everywhere for the great work you all do.
I worked in in-patient hospice for quite a while, and of all the medical arenas I worked in (long term care, emergency, ICU, pediatric emergency), hospice is far and away the only area of care I would return to. It is remarkably peaceful and fulfilling since you aren’t trying to stop the very natural process of dying, but you are guiding and walking alongside the patient and their loved ones as that final journey is being traveled. You provide education and comfort, medically and emotionally, to the patient and loved ones, and in doing so you silently give them permission to do what it seems like we hate to do-tell a loved one goodbye and give them permission to move on from this plane. There is beauty in birth and just as much in death when handled correctly and compassionately.
I love how they cater to the needs of individuals. I used to volunteer sing for over 2 years at an Assisted Living Home as well as those at end of life needs. I watched a few through to their last days and loved each. Whenever I would sing I can always look over where they used to sit and give me big smiles. Even during Special Events like Valentine's Day I would love to sing with the staff. One of the patients would be King and another Queen during Valentine's Day so they got crowns, candies and flowers. They looked so lovely and proud. Since I moved back South, I do miss them but plan to start singing here as well. It does the heart good to volunteer and watch their eyes light up with songs they remember and sometimes sing too which I do encourage. I still feel the ones who had to pass and know they are with me. I also played strings so I dedicated every weekend to the Military National Cemeteries playing for two hours but always praying and asking permission first and foremost. I did this for over 2 years as well. I have started to do that here but have found some of the military areas a little difficult due to the location in the cemetery. I think I will go just to the National Cemetery assigned to the passed soldiers.
Children suffering from life-threatening illnesses is the worse thing and for a young child to be robbed of their lives. It is bloody cruel and bloody wrong.
@Stargazer: no, children suffering and dying is real life…sadly. Since the dawn of time children have been the ones who suffered and died thru plagues, war and famines. This concept that children shouldn’t die before their time is the highest form of naïveté.Children in our time only live a long time b/c of modern breakthroughs. We should be thankful we have had those breakthroughs and discoveries.
@@ebriggs3498 🤦♀️ Take your head out of your arse for a second and try to understand what she's saying and why.
@@ebriggs3498 Sadly even Newborns can die from Prematurity or illness, such as Cardiac Issues. As a Neonatal Nurse/Midwife it was my role to care for these Babies and give Support to the Parents. It's terribly sad, but still so important to give care that allows Parents to contribute to their Babies care, and to ensure ( as much as possible, sometimes sudden collapses do occur) that the Babies have a pain-free 'good death', Parents need to look back and feel that they were able to give their Babies Love, warmth and comfort at the end of their too- short lives. It's a Blessing and privilege to give Babies Love and Care at this time.
All of the employees are angels on earth. They are all beautiful individuals.
This is just so humane. It’s the best of what humans are capable.
these are truly kind people that put all their effort into making others happy. The world needs more people like these
Oh my gosh, the way he plates the puree meal os so sweet
Everyone in this documentary gives me amazing inspiration. They're so genuinely caring and giving. What a wonderful place for people who truly need tenderness.
Wow! Linda is a truly caring & beautiful person. A blessing to her patients & their families & her profession.
Such a wonderful. And a very happy place. With such caring people xx
I know this show is really old but it gives me a whole new outlook on hospice care.Inpatient and outpatient.
There is another good channel here, it’s called Hospice Nurse Julie, she explains everything so well.
I was 28, bro was 27. Zero experience with death. Dad got cancer. 6 months and gone. Thank God for hospice cause we were all alone without them.
I care for my parents my dad is in final stages of congestive heart failure. It’s 24/7. It’s so hard watching them fail. And I would love nothing more than have a good cry some days but it’s more important to make them laugh and forget about there pain.
Bless you and your dad. I take full time care of my father in law who is also in end stage congestive heart failure. It's difficult
I hope that your parents are still with you, but, if not, I hope that they passed peacefully and that you were able to be with them❤️
This is a most beautiful video on life. God bless you all. You have so much to teach on humanity.
Hospice care in the UK puts hospice care in the US to shame! I am a hospice social worker and I wish we had the same resources available in this country. 80-90% of hospice care occurs in the home, and most families can’t afford to hire personal aides. A lot of families can’t afford to take off of work to take care of dying patients - nor do they have the training most of the time! It hurts me terribly to see patients and families in my country suffer at end of life but I also feel powerless to change our unequal, disjointed, underfunded, inequitable system. It hurts me so deeply. I just want to support dying people and their families, I feel so powerless
Private caregivers (at least in New Jersey) cost about $25-30 per hour, or starting at $240 a day for 24-hr live in caregivers. Or, families could pay $300+ a day for room & board at facilites for their loved ones receiving hospice care (Medicare for Americans 65+ cover hospice services/medications/medical equipment, but not private caregivers nor room/board at FOR PROFIT skilled nursing facilities). Should individuals be making a profit off of sick/dying people? In the United States we have decided that yes, that is acceptable. But it is not moral
Born in 1939 I am still fortunate to be in excellent health but you never know what tomorrow will bring so I was very happy to see this .I live in Kent so perhaps I will actually need the hospice one of these days.
The work these people do is amazing and so needed. Bless them!
The staff there are so amazing ♥️♥️♥️
Wow, what an amazing place! I can’t believe it is a free service--we need this here in Canada!!
It is available in most larger cities cities in Canada. I know of three in Vancouver alone. When people are ready for it their doctor will arrange a medical transfer.
I currently have to think about end-of-life-care and watched this in order to get a better idea of how being in a hospice could be like, and I have to say I am a lot less frightened now.
These are amazing people and show their patients the dignity and respect I wish for myself.
What a bunch of great people!
I don't why I watch these videos. I cry all the way through.
My heart sunk when they said they provide play sessions for children 0 to 18 so sad that children not even able to talk are facing pain and death. What an amazing place ,people , and programme in general. The sad thing is these places get very little to no money off the government. It is all donations. if this programme inspired you check out your local hospice they are always looking for help fund raising , working in their charity shops or even just volunteering to keep as I.ebody company or a freindly phonecall now and again. The chances are that one day in the future a family member, freind or even us will need there help one day. As death comes to us all. SHAME ON OUR GOVERMENT FOR NOT FULLY FUNDING THESE PLACES
If anyone in the USA has a disease and it is progressive you should look into finding about Palliative care. It’s amazing and encourage you to find a palliative care within your hospital system.
If they tell you ‘no you don’t meet the age or look, kindly remind what palliative care is. It caring for the cares, and making the ones who are chronically lives comfortable and streamline all of your doctor appointment and it is so amazing.
my brother passed away from cancer at age 20 in 2007 he fought hard for 8 months i was in my last year of high school was hard times
RESPECT for all these people ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ i work with severely disabled children, sadly we have lost children, will always get me in my heart. I am from London living in The Netherlands. In Holland if you are terminal sick you can end life with your Doctor as long as you say this while you can communicate.
Update on the kids
So disappointed that when I try to view the other videos I get a channel is not available msg and can't access any other video on the channel.
The company I work for provides psychological services to hospice, Alf, and telehealth patients. I think a lot of us become attached to our patients, despite losing patients a few times a month..
I'd love to subscribe to this channel, but it keeps showing me it's unavailable.
Oh my gosh I love australia I live in the U.S I wish we had a place like this filled with people like them so kind
Australia? That's England.
I never would want to be in a adult hospice,i prefer to die at home then
Poor baby so sad 😞
in sweden people tell you this is how it looks like. In real life the people just lie and die in a room. Looks nothing like this in real life. Not the workers fault tho they are great.
I think death is wonderful as it makes life meaningful. 🙏❤ God knows how and when to take a soul
Iv been a carer for twelve plus years we were told never to say my darling, sweetheart, or any other pet names I never did use them never liked it
Pretty cheerful narrator. Really turns me off
you’ve got to be cheerful in these situations 🤷🏻♀️ live happily for what short time you’ve got instead of wallowing in self pity
the nurse saying it's to inprove care what joke their job really is to keep them alive as long as possiable to get more money out of the groverment
It's a charity you absolute fool
The best hospice care is hanging a large sign at the entrance that says “Believe On the Lord Jesus Christ and You Will Be Saved”.