Good end of life care always requires preparation, but this is especially so in neurological disease, where the signs of impending death can be unclear and there may be a substantial period of mental incapacity. A sensitive process of advance care planning can enable both patient and family to...
Compassionate Care at Life's End: Exploring the Importance of End-of-Life Care Introduction End-of-life care, also known as palliative care, is a critical aspect of healthcare that focuses on providing comfort, support, and dignity to individuals who are nearing the end of their lives. This...
Finding Care At the End of Life Decades ago, most people died at home, but medical advances have changed that. Today, most Americans are in hospitals or nursing homes at the end of their lives. Some people enter the hospital to get treated for an illness. Some may already be living in...
Too many Americans at the end-of-life get no respect-or dignity. Our health care institutions are configured to manage acute episodic illness or injury. But they are ill equipped to care for the impending explosion in the number of aged "Baby Boomers" who will live longer, but with ...
Decisions about care at the end of life are not only influenced by doctor–patient–family relationships and physician practice, but also by institutional "culture." An institutional assessment of the quality of care provided to dying hospitalized patients was undertaken to characterize and identify fa...
HONOLULU — Critical care, especially at the end of a patient’s life, requires practitioners to not only be vulnerable, but to accept and communicate uncertainty and to build trust with both the patients and their families. Margaret Pisani, MD, MPH, FCCP,delivered the Roger C. Bone Memorial...
"Doctors may be more likely to die using hospice, but they are no less likely to use high-intensity hospital care," they concluded. "If anything, they have higher rates of ICU use in the last 6 months of life. Society as a...
Dignity-conserving care at the end of life 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 35 作者: F Girsh 摘要: Blankson JN, Gallant JE, Quinn TC, Bartlett JG, Siliciano RF. 关键词: Humans CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes Viremia HIV Infections Viral Load HIV Antigens Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly ...
But until now we have failed to listen to the preferences of those at the end of their life. Consequently, 58 per cent of the 500,000 people who die every year do so in hospital, when, with a more coordinated approach, many could end their lives at home or in the care home in ...
Unit 9 End-of-life care临终关怀 Into the sunset桑榆迟暮 The idea that the terminally ill need pain relief and humane care instead of 'curing' is catching on. But what about the people who just grow old? 1 绝症患者所需要的不是“治疗”，而是减轻痛苦和人道关怀，这一点正逐步得到...