Pick a topic and start your journey
Caring for aging parents: Chronic Illness >
Heart and kidney failure, frailty, Alzheimer’s, Lung disease, Diabetes, Cancer
Comfort Care and Quality of Life >
The Palliative and Hospice approach: comfort and quality of life is what it’s all about
Understanding Medical Terms and Jargon >
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation: CPR; Do Not Resuscitate: DNR; Allow Natural Death: AND
Culture, Traditions and Being Remembered >
Time honored customs can help at life’s end, and to keep memories alive.
Modern Medicine can keep you alive >
Heroic Measures: CPR, Breathing Machines, Feeding Tubes, Medications.
End of Life: Grief and Bereavement >
Knowing what End of Life looks like can ease the process; often grief starts long before the end.
Decision Makers: Consent and Conflict >
Surrogate, Substitute, Agent, Proxy: who will make sure your end of life wishes are followed.
Advance Directives
Advance Directives, Living Wills, Estate Plans, Financial Plans, Power of Attorney, Funeral Plans.
End of Life Planning Blog
Taking Palliative Care Mainstream with the help of ePatients
Charlie Blotner, 21-year old ePatient and co-founder of the tweetchat for those with brain tumours #btsm. In learning more about Palliative Care, it just made sense that it should be part of standard services. Alas, not: If you’ve seen one #palliative care program, you’ve seen . . . one palliative care program – Jill Mendlen
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
A beautiful death
“My mother was ‘dying’ for about 10 years – with her sickness, she seemed often on the brink of death, and then she’d rally. We’d all said our goodbyes a number of times. But on the day she actually died, my father was in her bed, his arm around her, holding on to...