This document will contain two parts: The first part will be a summary of the interview I had with a nurse in a palliative care facility. The second part of the article will detail how my family views the process of caring for someone who is already dying. Additionally, it will describe in brief details how my family mourns a family member who has passed to the other side. Additionally, I will compare and contrast how my culture differs from other cultures when it comes to the process of caring for an elderly person who is about to die. Additionally, I will identify themes present in many cultural approaches related to long-term care of the elderly, death and dying, and grief and loss. From now on, I will explain how my knowledge will be useful in my career as a counselor. During the interview, the person I interviewed was a registered nurse who had worked in the hospice care setting for over ten years. The nurses name is Diana. Diana has been working in this sector for 16 years. Diana's response to the questions that needed to be asked for my assignment was as follows: Palliative care is an exclusive way of showing compassion to people with life-threatening disabilities and their loved ones. It is a multidisciplinary wellness care plan that aims to provide reassuring and sympathetic care taking into account the wishes of the individual and their loved ones. Palliative care focuses on caring for the individual, not finding a cure. According to Newman & Newman (2012) “Palliative care is an integrated system of medicine, nursing, counseling and spiritual care for the dying person and their family” (Pp. 607).1- The age of a person can determine a lot of things with their personality, culture, religion, etc. However, it is a...... middle of paper ...... cultural diversity will give me the knowledge I need to meet the requirements of the person I will advise. The United States has a diversity of traditional educational developments that can regularly pave the way for an emotional state of incomprehension, resentment, doubt, and a multitude of other feelings when different beliefs differ. Traditional expertise in the field of mental health counseling can help reduce these barriers and provide mental health counselors with a policy to follow in seeking to appreciate the beliefs of the individual. When a counselor takes time to learn about a particular culture before providing care, they are showing respect for individual traditions and beliefs. Works CitedNewman, B. and Newman, P. (2012). Development throughout life: a psychosocial approach (11 ed). Belmont: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.