Synopsis: Review: As the populations in our societies age, there will be more and more individuals in care homes who have life-threatening conditions and are deserving of palliative care. The flow of the principles and practices of palliative care into the nursing home community is entirely logical, but it is a big task when many
Synopsis: Review: Providing care and support for the family of the patient is one of the basic, almost sacred, tenets of palliative care. But how well are we doing? In this book Peter Hudson and Sheila Payne have assembled a distinguished cast of contributors, which is both multidisciplinary and international, to critically assess the evidence.
Synopsis: Review: Here is a book for patients with pain and for parents with children who have pain, written by someone who has dealt with pain for more than 40 years. Trained as a teacher of children with special needs, Renee Goossens suffered horrendous injuries in a car accident when she was 21, which left
Synopsis: This guide introduces Jewish beliefs and practices around illness, death and loss and provides practical suggestions for responding to the sometimes complicated situations where the clinical, religious and cultural are entwined. Healthcare professionals, chaplains, social workers, funeral directors, family caregivers and others caring for Jewish patients and families through illness, death and bereavement will
This letter is part of my Healthcare Proxy/Living Will package "To My Health Care Proxy(ies), Anne, Cookie, and Michael: Personal Wishes; Supplemental Thoughts With complete foreknowledge of the consequences of my doing so, I hereby fully relieve and release, and without hesitation or qualification firmly direct and require my Executor(s) to relieve and release each
Near the end of her life, Carley Cunniff wrote this letter with the assistance of Dr. Peter Dixon and her health care proxies. It is shared here as one example of a health care directive that played a crucial role in guiding caregivers at the end of Carley's life. This letter is part of the
Description: Epilogue by Lydia Prescott Thayer What is it in us, especially when we are young, that makes most of us fight for life with such dogged and desperate and passionate persistence? Life is a future we cannot see, mysterious and unpredictable. Yet we choose it, if choice is really ours, even with
Synopsis: Mary Oliver is a poet from Province Town, MA and writes mostly about nature. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1984) and the National Book Award (1992). Her most recent collection is Evidence (2009). The following is an excerpt from her poem In Blackwater Woods that was recently published in the New York Times.
Description: The following is a blog posting from Jeffry Parks MD, a general surgeon from Cleveland, OH. It's a case about an elderly patient he successfully cared for using his palliative medical instincts: "I received a consult one morning on an old guy, ostensibly for "abdominal pain". It was early, before 7:30 and
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