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because Amelia knew the path and progress of her grandad’s disease – which play therapy gave her – she was calm, accepting, and resilient. And able to make those memories with her grandad in the final days and weeks of his life.”
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How play therapy helped 10-year-old Amelia overcome grief

10-year-old Amelia tragically lost both her dad and grandad in quick succession. Play therapy has helped her deal with her experiences of deep grief and bereavement.
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As part of Hospice Care Week we share a fascinating and insightful recount of life and death from Sophia, a former hairdresser turned palliative care nurse
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Hospice Care in Focus: Putting dying back into living

As part of Hospice Care Week we share a fascinating and insightful recount of life and death from Sophia, a former hairdresser turned palliative care nurse.
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Hospice Care in Focus: end of life care and homelessness - St Gemma's Hospice
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Hospice Care in Focus: End of life care and homelessness

Over the past few years, St Gemma's Hospice in Yorkshire delivered a project to address end of life care for people experiencing homelessness.
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Dr Tariq
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Death and dying: a doctor’s perspective

Dr Naseem Tariq shares his experience of being an end of life patient and how this changed his work as a doctor.
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Dan Hewitt and his mother
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Dying with dignity

ITV political correspondent Dan Hewitt lost his mum in 2014. The hospice support she received at the end of her life helped her to die at home, with her family around her.
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Lewan De Jager and his family
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Luwan's story

When Luwan was diagnosed with leukaemia at just three years old, his family didn’t know what to do.
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