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Can I Include End of Life Care Wishes in My Will?

Seasons Hospice

If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. Any other wishes you have for end-of-life care.

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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

The toll that caregiving has taken on both family members, and their relationship, is a major theme of the film, as is Doris’ desire to find ways to live her own life even as her brother’s ends. In the backdrop of these personal events, hangs the Schiavo case. I think that’s part of the beauty of the story.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Over the Threshold: Creating Solutions

Chicago Caregiving

He had come a long way from when he was born — an event that nearly killed him. Because] it’s often easier to run a place that feeds hundreds or thousands of people meals each week than one that gives 20 people a house. But what happens when someone living on the street is nearing the end of life? Perry asks.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.