hospice care

I don't know what comes to your mind when you hear those words

but after seeing it at work in three separate facilities 

and watching it in a few different homes

involving family members and friends

I have come to the conclusion

that the focus of hospice care is not providing a place for people to die

though that is often the end of hospice care

my experience leads me to believe that its purpose

is to enable people and their families

to live some of their most difficult days
with as much dignity and comfort as is possible
maybe that is simply a different way of saying the same thing

but it makes a world of difference in the way I hear the words 
I hope if hospice care touches your life that it is a positive experience