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Using the creative process with the terminally ill.

Abstract Problems faced by terminally ill patients and the ways those problems are addressed by institutional care givers may thwart the patient's creative impulses, which are basic to living. This essay describes how the staff of Hillhaven Hospice encourages and supports the creativity of patients through the medium of creative writing.