Palliative care aims to ease pain and discomfort, reduce stress, and help patients —and their families— have the highest quality of life possible. Hospice care comes into play when a cure is no longer viable or when the treatment negatively outweighs the benefits. You can have palliative car...
Informal caregivers (ICs) are key support for patients with progressive incurable cancer and non-cancer diseases [1,2,3]. At the same time, ICs are affected by the patients' disease with own burden and needs: Studies demonstrate various psychological, social, physical and economic burden as wel...
Being a caregiver is one of those jobs that not everyone can do. It requires compassion and patience in addition to nurturing and problem-solving skills. The role as caregiver can often be stressful and daunting, which is why respite care exists: to give full-time, at-home caregivers a bre...
You can take your time to say what you need to over the period they’re in hospice. According to The Four Things that Matter Most by Iyra Brock, those who are dying have a need to express four things before their death: I love you, thank you, forgive me, and I forgive you. ...
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