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“You give with one hand, you receive with the other,” says Better Living Hospice, Outreach and Adult Day Program volunteer Shahnaz. “Visiting is not just friendly visiting, it is treatment  —  not clinical, but a treatment of love. Some of my Clients are fearful about death, but I can give them space to explore what they believe and help bring them back to the present.  Sometimes it is very sad, but reviewing memories often brings people back to life.  I am not seeing disability. I am not seeing impending death. I am seeing abilities that remain. I am seeing life. I am helping my Clients celebrate the life they have had and that they have left.  When I see the smile on my Clients’ faces as I arrive, and if when I leave they are still smiling, I know I have done something good.”