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What are some good questions to ask a guest speaker from a hospice?

as part of my healthcare course, a guest speaker from a hospice is coming in... trouble is we have to ask her questions and I don't know what to ask... help please :)

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1. You know that a hospice is where people who are terminally ill go, right? Well I used to work in one. So you could ask about the types of conditions that are represented within the hospice - for example, what proportion have HIV and AIDS. You could ask how different terminally ill people interact with each other (when I was working there, the homosexual AIDS sufferers formed a sort of clique, and didn`t want to associate themselves with the AIDS sufferers who had caught HIV through sharing needles - it really was quite weird.) You could ask, rather importantly, I think, how people deal with being told they are going to die fairly soon. Ank finally, you could ask if the speaker can provide any cautionary tales. I met a girl who was suffering from (and ultimately died of) anorexia nervosa. Good luck with your questions.
2. You might ask how people get admitted. Does demand exceed the number of places available and how do they decide who gets offered a place.