Proposal

For my Graduation Project I will be starting volunteer work at Keystone Hospice which is located on 8765 Stenton Avenue in Wyndmoor PA. I will be doing this for about three weeks and then moving forward in my project. While I will be volunteering I will be doing such things as gardening, throwing trust out, reading to the patients, and ultimately I will be able to take care of the patients. After weeks of volunteer service at the hospice house itself, I am going to throw a huge flea market to support and raise money for the Keystone Hospice and donate it all to them. This will be on November 6, 2010. At this flea market all the proceeds go to the hospice house. There will be food, drinks, stuff to buy, baskets to raffle off, and air brushed tee shirts. The outcome of this project that I want from it is to learn about people’s lives and to learn about how hospice care has actually hanged the lives of people. From me volunteering and throwing a fundraiser for Keystone House I am hoping to help out and do whatever I can to help them stay open so they can treat and let poor deathly ill people relax and live their life until they can’t live it no more. To complete my project I need to learn the skills and help as much as I can so the hospice house will stay the nice loveable way it is. Also, by completing this project I will be showing others that they can actually help out in their society too. For this project, I will be doing a minimum of 20 hours of community service at the facility itself. Then to set up, get ready, and have the flea market will take a long time as well. So all together I am estimated to be doing 32 hours all together. For this to become possible I had to get the support of my parents to have my back during this effort to complete this project and also I needed the support of my sister’s boyfriend Steven Madison. He is a very successful and talented air brush artist and he loves to help me out. Also, I got the support of Volunteer Director Chris from the Keystone House herself having my back to complete this project. With the help of these select few people and the resources I have hopefully this project will be a success and I know it will teach me many life lessons.     ** __Research Proposal __ ** For this paper my research topic is Hospice living. In my life I have known many people who have been in Hospice and Palliative care and have died in one. Ever since then I have been fascinated at how Hospice and Palliative care worked and if it actually helped the patients live longer than the ill that decide not to go into Hospice care. My essential question for this research is going to be does Hospice and Palliative care actually helps patients live longer or not. While my Grandfather was In Hospice care when he had a cancer called Nasopharyngeal Cancer which is formed in upper part on the throat. Whenever I went to see him he was always down and about. I was pretty much amazed that he was still living. Even thought he didn’t look so good I was happy that he was still here. After he died I wondered to myself about if the hospice actually lengthened his life or would he had died sooner. Also, I was thinking if he enjoyed his time there or no. From researching this I will finally be able to put the questions about Hospice and Palliative care all behind me. It will help me learn about how Hospice people treat their patients and if it actually lengthened their life or not. One Major source I have to ask about this topic is the Volunteer Director at Keystone Hospice Chris. She is very well educated and has been working in Hospice and palliative care for the last 20 years. I am also researching many articles that are actually written by doctors about the issue of Hospice and Palliative Care actually helping lengthen the life of their patients or shorten it.
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