{"id":1003257,"date":"2020-04-21T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=1003257"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:11:28","slug":"hospice-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2020\/04\/21\/hospice-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Fisher Hospice Chaplain with Hospice of the Big Country kindly took the time to tell us a little bit about what he does for Careers in Aging Week.<\/p>\n<h2>What do you do as a Hospice Chaplain?<\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote><p>My primary role is to provide emotional support, spiritual care, and resources\/services to people with a terminal diagnosis and their families. While my approach to care is grounded in my faith and my hope is for all to know God, I get to serve people with a wide range of backgrounds and beliefs. I work to sustain people&#8217;s faith during crisis and change, guide processing and debriefing, encourage spiritual reflection and growth, and try to nurture people to a place of peace, purpose, and reconciliation.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h2>What is your favorite part of working with older adults?<\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote><p>I love when someone decides to share a meaningful story or detail. Every story and memory is held onto and retold for a reason, and I feel privileged&nbsp;to get to listen.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gabe Fisher is also a Doctoral Fellow with Siburt Institute for Church Ministry and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mosaicsite.org\/main?author=5d642514c112fb00016a77eb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes regularly for their blog Mosaic&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1003260\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1003260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003260\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2020\/04\/gabe-fisher-480x720-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2020\/04\/gabe-fisher-480x720-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2020\/04\/gabe-fisher-480x720-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2020\/04\/gabe-fisher-480x720-1-327x490.jpg 327w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2020\/04\/gabe-fisher-480x720-1-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1003260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabe Fisher<br \/>Hospice Chaplain<br \/>Hospice of the Big Country<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Fisher Hospice Chaplain with Hospice of the Big Country kindly took the time to tell us a little bit about what he does for Careers in Aging Week. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18066,"featured_media":1003236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200991],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers-in-aging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2020\/04\/GSA-Careers-in-Aging-Week-logo.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003257\/revisions\/1003277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}