Palliative care

Kept on Life Support In discussion of life support, many question if people should be kept on life support. In one controversial issue is that in some occasions some people should not be on life support. On one hand, everybody is human in that they want to live, so they should have the right to be kept on life support. On the other hand, some may disagree with others because if they are hurting then they should not be on life support and should be able to leave this place. People should not be…

I have chosen to write about assisted suicide for the terminally ill. I chose it because it has been in the news lately and I wanted to know more about it. I’ve learned that there are people very passionate for and against it. They all have great points of why it should and why it shouldn’t be legalized. I believe that it should be legalized and my paper will give you a few reasons why. My working thesis is “Assisted suicide should be legal for people with a terminal illness because they have a…

stages before death. There are a few exceptions to this rule, because of palliative care being added, hospice is sometimes granted to those who are in need of pain management. Hospice is provided by compassionate, caring people who are there to make this final time…

Hospice is type of palliative care where the goal is to comfort those who have a certain amount of time left, Hospice was first introduced to the United States in the 1970s. The goal is to make sure the person’s quality of life is at the best it can while managing the symptoms of their condition. (Hospicevallley 2016). During the 1970s hospice care was mostly for adult cancer patients, but now it is available to other illnesses and various ages. Such illnesses are, for example, lung disease,…

still many expenses left unpaid and more often than not these bills fall on the family. It is estimated that it cost approximately $10,000 a month (Torre, 2002, para. 3), and it can cost an astounding $10,000 a day for someone who is in an intensive care unit (Court, 2009, Pg. 1). There, are also situations like that of Brittany Maynard where, since the state they live in has not legalized death with dignity, they are forced to upheave their lives and move to a different state, an expensive…

Take Heart – At Hospice This April John Smith, a volunteer with Hospice was chosen to receive the June Callwood Award. This award was established by Hospice Palliative Care Ontario to acknowledge and thank outstanding hospice volunteers throughout Ontario. The award was named in honour of Ms. Callwood, a Canadian journalist, author and social activist who was a long-time advocate of hospice. John Smith joined the Hastings team of volunteers in 2012, her interest stemming from the desire that…

Osteosarcoma is an aggressive form of cancer that affects the bone growth locations in the body known as epiphyseal plate. Cancer occurs when the body’s cells being to divide at an astounding rate, but in the case of Osteogenic Sarcoma the cells are multiplying rapidly and creating a weak bone matrix replacing the healthy bone matrix. This disease affects young adults because bone growth is quicker in their bodies. It especially targets bones like the femur, tibia, humerus, but is not limited to…

Cancer is a person’s worst nightmare because most people decide just to give up on life. Sometimes when people find out that they have cancer when it is in stage four, which is the final stage of all types of cancer. Most of the time, cancer patients want to take treatments, but some of them say that there is no reason to take treatments because they know that it will not help. Doctors try to get patients to take treatments in hopes of them living longer and possibly having more time to spend…

meeting at Mrs. L.J.’s SNF was arranged to discuss A.J.’s concerns about her sister’s nutrition and end-of-life (EOL) care. Nonetheless, A.J. refused to resume the GT feedings and/or to participate in the IDT meeting. In addition, she threatened with terminating her sister’s hospice enrollment. As a nurse, I understood that A.J. was the person responsible of making her sister’s EOL care decisions. Yet, Mrs. L.J. had been admitted to hospice with a GT in place and A.J. had agreed to continue her…

it touches all of our lives at some point or another and we grieve when someone close to us dies there are various counselling services such as Mind and Cruise. These in tern can enhance the feelings of anger, fear and sadness (Cruise Bereavement Care, 1976 to 1977, as cited by Arniston, 2009). We all have misconceptions that manifest itself due to the age of the deceased and the bereft person. In order to that they be understood and the mechanism of grief in limiting…