That is, until they apply to a loved one. And for those who choose to be volunteers at Nathan Adelson Hospice. Lannee Tuohy, who moved to Las Vegas two years ago, has been a volunteer here both years and for some 13 years prior to taking up residence in Sun City. She didn't join the hospice movement because anyone in her life had died, but because she was curious about it. What is significant.
People die the way they lived, kind, caring and with humor, if such was their outlook.
Her father, Harold Rodes, was president of Bradley University and later headed the General Motors Institute. Tuohy graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., then worked as a computer analyst for 10 years with General Motors. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1982 and soon after began volunteering at the county jail in Flint, Mich., where she provided spiritual guidance to prisoners who could not be kept with the general population because of their health. She did this two hours each week for two years, and then became a volunteer for a hospice in Flint, which she said brought important changes to her life. As a volunteer at Nathan Adelson Hospice, she finds herself part of a team, which consists of a nurse, a social worker, a certified nurse's assistant and a chaplain, if such is desired by the family.