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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
Men writing about The End of Life
Men writing from the inside out about life’s end. In the picture in The New Yorker, sitting with his dog, on a bench by a park, Roger Angell, looked none of his 93 years. Famous for his sports writing, ‘This Old Man' is Angell's reflection on life, starting ith what...
Pain as a Cause of Agitated Delirium
"Can't you do something about her pain?" An 85-year-old woman with multiple medical problems, including dementia, coronary artery disease, renal insufficiency, and peripheral vascular disease, was admitted to our hospital with urosepsis. Her hospital course was...
My big brother, John, had the best possible end
My bro died at home, on Palliative/Hospice Care Although we did not know it at the time, my brother's 'end' started November 2018, with a brain tumour diagnosis. Surgery before Christmas that year was deemed 'successful' and John was in such good physical shape that...