When a person is dying, we don’t often talk about the complications of when families don’t get along or don’t have great communication. Hospice has to follow policies and are stuck strictly talking to the medical POA, and so oftentimes other family members get left out. These are oftentimes the family members who I work with because they need to prepare, too. They have to figure out how to survive after their person’s death, too. They need information and guidance and support, too. Families are

stories from a hospice nurse