It’s Complicated: Having a Family Member Die on Hospice Not-of-Covid-19
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2020-08-02
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Nancy Kusmaul (2020) It’s Complicated: Having a Family Member Die on Hospice Not-of-COVID-19, Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, DOI: 10.1080/15524256.2020.1800555
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care on 02 Aug 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15524256.2020.1800555.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care on 02 Aug 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15524256.2020.1800555.
Access to this item will begin on 08/02/2021
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As the world has rightfully focused on COVID-19 people have continued to die of other things, and their needs and the needs of their loved ones have been overshadowed by the pandemic. My mother died of stage IV pancreatic cancer on April 25, 2020 in New York City (NYC). This was the peak of COVID-19 in NYC, when emergency rooms were overloaded, and nursing homes and hospitals had refrigerated trucks in the streets to deal with the dead.