Final companions for the dying

• Posted By: Bryan Chan
• Posted On: 5:26 p.m. | July 4, 2012

Two years ago, the Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance started a volunteer-based program that tries to ensure its dying patients are not left alone in their hospital rooms. The program has trained more than 30 volunteers, who when the call goes out, sign up and sit with patients who either have no families or whose families are unable to take time to be at the hospital. Barbara Frakas, who worked at a semiconductor company before being laid off, has been with the program since the beginning. The experience, she says, has changed her.

Read Thomas Curwen’s article: No One Dies Alone program offers comfort to the end