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

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

April 29, 2026 · 32 min · Season 3 · Episode 76

About this episode

This episode explores how virtual reality is transforming hospice and palliative care by enhancing human experience at the end of life.

Send us Fan Mail 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 the...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Comeaux

Guests: Kathleen Benton, Teri Yarbrow

Topics covered

Keywords

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: hospice and palliative care

More episodes of Anatomy Of Leadership

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Anatomy Of Leadership podcast page.