The Hospice: An Educational-Service Model Providing Counseling Opportunities and Indirect Benefits for Older Widows.

Dawson, Eugene E., Jr.

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ERIC Number: EJ246774

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Publication Date: 1981

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The Hospice: An Educational-Service Model Providing Counseling Opportunities and Indirect Benefits for Older Widows.

Dawson, Eugene E., Jr.

Death Education, v5 n2 p107-19 Sum 1981

Focuses on the large and increasing number of older widows available for human service work within the hospice movement caring for the dying and bereaved. Suggests widows possess an empathetic readiness for work in this human service field, and become both beneficiaries and benefactors of their service efforts. (Author)

Descriptors: Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Training, Death, Educational Benefits, Empathy, Gerontology, Human Resources, Peer Counseling, Training Methods, Volunteers, Widowed

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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