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Caring for the Terminal Patient
1986People face death in many different ways. Counselling may help some while others prefer to meet death in their own private way; helping a person face death starts with this recognition of individual style. Thus, our own values concerning what needs to be done should not be imposed and the person’s own wishes are to be respected above all else.
Margaret W. Linn, Bernard S. Linn
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1988
Only 24% of the population die before the age of 65 and Table I shows the distribution of death in 10 year groups therafter. My starting point is therefore that most dying is done by the old and therefore it is appropriate to study their deaths perhaps more than has been done in the past.
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Only 24% of the population die before the age of 65 and Table I shows the distribution of death in 10 year groups therafter. My starting point is therefore that most dying is done by the old and therefore it is appropriate to study their deaths perhaps more than has been done in the past.
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Practice Management, 2018
In June 2018, it emerged that hundreds of elderly patients had died at Gosport Memorial Hospital as a result of being given life-shortening opioid drugs they did not need
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In June 2018, it emerged that hundreds of elderly patients had died at Gosport Memorial Hospital as a result of being given life-shortening opioid drugs they did not need
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The Care of the Terminal Patient
2006According to the Institute of Medicine, “at the beginning of the 21st century, half of all patients diagnosed with cancer will die of their disease within a few years.” This statistic does not fully explain the reality of the illness and its repercussions for the individuals living with cancer and their families and friends.
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Neurology, 1988 2001
Human life is a process. As with any process it implies movement and change over time. And as any process it has its beginning and end. What constitutes the beginning of human life, what is its end, and what happens between the beginning and the end of our life is a perennial challenge for philosophy, arts, and sciences.
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Human life is a process. As with any process it implies movement and change over time. And as any process it has its beginning and end. What constitutes the beginning of human life, what is its end, and what happens between the beginning and the end of our life is a perennial challenge for philosophy, arts, and sciences.
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1976
Because of the advances in medical care most patients now die at the end of a chronic and tedious illness rather than as a consequence of pneumonia or other short-term disease. This gives rise to many psychological, social and physical problems so that the essential factor in attaining good terminal care is a knowledge of the whole situation of the ...
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Because of the advances in medical care most patients now die at the end of a chronic and tedious illness rather than as a consequence of pneumonia or other short-term disease. This gives rise to many psychological, social and physical problems so that the essential factor in attaining good terminal care is a knowledge of the whole situation of the ...
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The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2013
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Terminal care... not terminal career
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2005openaire +3 more sources