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I volunteer for a hospice organization, and recently have been visiting an older vet. He has advanced cancer, and is extremely frail. He has no family, and spends most of his day alone in bed. He was just moved from his tiny basement apartment to a nursing home.
He is ex-army (MP), still enjoys a smoke and a lottery ticket, and watching baseball. He's not a big talker. He is bored, lonely, and hates that he isn't in his familiar apartment. Not sure how old he is.... 70's?
I was thinking that he might like it if I started reading out loud to him. Any book recommendations that come to mind, that I can read in small bits over days/weeks?
Ask him what he likes.
There are a lot of good books about baseball and the history behind it.
The same with wars, planes, trains, etc.
Ask a librarian if she/he could recommend a book that has short stories. In that way you can finish a story each time that you are there.
It is possible that the Veterans Administration or the local American Legion may even have a list of possible books that men of that generation might enjoy.
There are videos and websites devoted to overseas bases from the 50's and 60's. People have uploaded their 8mm film onto Youtube with high school homecomings, base housing, and so on. Old people love to go through photograph albums.
Hospice volunteers are wonderful people. My mom loves the volunteer who comes each week to visit with her. It's great that you are volunteering.
My mom enjoys history books that have illustrations and photos. The volunteer who visits mom checks them out of the library reads to her and after their session, leaves them for a week then takes them back.
Rick Steve's Europe, Rudy Maxa's World, Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope, and Globe Trekker often run on the weekends. My mom used to watch those, but lately has been watching the Japanese walking tours programs on NHK (Somewhere Street, Strolling with Tamori, etc.).
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