Palliative care

Currently, patients facing a terminal illness spend their final days either at home, at a hospital or in hospice care. A terminally ill patient’s treatment may be based on their insurance. After treatment options have been exhausted, there are not many options left for the terminally ill. Terminally ill may either receive aggressive treatment, palliative care, or pain control. However, there is no way of knowing how a terminally ill patient’s last days will be. Consequently, many terminally…

concerned with being reliant on outside care services (Ohnsorge, 2014, p. 6). Independent people grow up making decisions about life everyday. It is people with these same personality attributes like being hesitant to lose self-control, an unwillingness to ask for assistance in everyday task…

You will need to get advice on funerals in Oldham if a family member has recently passed away. It would be sensible to use the services of a funeral services company, especially if you have never had to plan a funeral. During this time of stress, you are likely to be overwhelmed by the choices and decisions you will have to make concerning the funeral. A funeral director is a person who can guide you in making the most appropriate decisions, both for the funeral service itself, as well as…

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses that focus on relief from an illness’ associated symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress of a serious illness, no matter what the diagnosis is (Materstvedt, 2003). This kind of care can address and potentially change many of the factors involved in individual request for assisted suicide by providing respect, careful attention, and open and sensitive communication in the…

suicide has a negative impact on either the availability and/or quality of palliative care (Health Law Institute, Assisted Suicide). On the contrary, the opposite has occurred. The legalization of assisted suicide has increased the development, availability, and quality of palliative care (Health Law Institute, Assisted Suicide). Patients are becoming more aware of the medical treatments available to them including both palliative care and doctor assisted suicide. In fact, some countries where…

The film titled "Good Death: Case Studies in the End of Life-Care" illustrates stories of four patients with a terminal illness who decide to embrace the finality of their lives by spending their last days at the Sacred Heart Palliative Care Hospital in Sydney Australia. Norma Andrews, Sandy Riches, Darryl Calver, and John Peart are all patients battling terminal cancer who, instead of enduring futile and hopeless treatments, choose to spend the last weeks and months of their lives engaging in…

he have only a few days to live in this life, Death is very common in all ages and all the times. Death is bad news and it is very difficult to be known especially for the nurse. It is very stressful for her to take care of people who are facing death, so it is important for a palliative nurse to know how she can handle the person who is facing death and how she let them live their rest of their life in peace without any pain and fears of what is coming, how the nurse can make the family except…

World, and it will one day return there”. Growing up, I always wanted to become an Oncologist because I wanted to cure patients from Cancer. My mind was set to cure, and cure only. I recall my very first interaction with Dr. Danielle Doberman, a Palliative Medicine physician, during my second month as an intern in the ICU, where I indulged in saving lives in an acute setting. I recall the 19- year- old boy who was brought in after he was found down intoxicated; unfortunately, he was brain dead…

Losing someone unexpectedly hurts but when you have a loved one in hospice care the hurt is indescribable. Reading the article, “when a loved one is terminally ill” gives insight with dealing with death. The writer reminds us just because a person is in hospice doesn’t mean they are going to die that moment. The writer describes it as “time stopping” once the diagnosis has been given, as family members we refuse to believe that this is the end. The article helps give guidance, with the…

dialysis by way of displaying behavioral resistance. Many patients with dementia usually state their care preferences before they become too impaired to make care decisions. In her illness, my mother also seems to have an opportunity to state her wishes verbally or she seems to have a living will. Therefore, in this situation, my family should make a practical decision considering all things such as her care preferences, quality of life,…