Frances Shani ParkerFrances Shani Parker is an award-winning writer, consultant, and former school principal. A hospice volunteer for many years in Detroit nursing homes, Parker is author of Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes. With stories, oems, and general information, she presents a captivating account of her experiences and insights on hospice, nursing homes, caregiving, dementia, death, and bereavement. A groundbreaking book with national endorsements, Becoming Dead Right includes universal perspectives, particularly the often-missing voices of people of color. An ongoing advocate for older adults, eldercare, and nursing home reform, Parker works with several organizations serving this population. She serves on the board of the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She writes a blog about hospice, nursing homes, eldercare, and older adults in general. Her blog is Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog. As an educator, Parker has consulted in school districts locally and nationally on service-learning, a teaching and learning approach that connects classroom learning with meeting community needs. Among many service-learning projects, she created successful research-based intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. She includes a chapter on these partnerships in Becoming Dead Right. Parker has been honored with the Service-Learning Trailblazer Award presented by the National Service-Learning Partnership. Other honors include the Outstanding Education Administrator Award presented by the Metropolitan Detroit Alliance of Black School Educators, and the Educator of the Year Award presented by the Wayne State University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, an international, professional fraternity for educators. Her writing has received awards from Writer's Digest, the Poetry Society of Michigan, the Detroit Writer's Guild, Broadside Press, and the New Orleans Public Library. Parker's website is www.FrancesShaniParker.com. Read More Read Less