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Virtual Reality for Serious Illness: Connecting, Healing, and Inducing Awe | Part One

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What if some of the most meaningful moments at the end of life could still be experienced—no matter the physical limitations?

In this episode, Kathleen Benton and VR innovator Teri Yarbrow reveal how virtual reality is reshaping hospice and palliative care by restoring something often lost in modern medicine—human experience. As care becomes increasingly clinical and documentation-driven, VR creates space for patients to reconnect with meaning, beauty, and identity beyond their diagnosis.

The impact is rooted in how the brain responds to immersion. Through presence (feeling…

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