Often, the hardest decision involving end-of-life care is the decision to begin hospice. However, many other decisions will play a role in the process, many of which will have a direct impact on a patient’s life. Some of these decisions are seemingly minor but can have profound repercussions. Others are weighty choices that require deliberation …
Post Update: Monday, August 2, 2021 Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the end of their life. It’s something that we put off for another day. It’s years away, right? That’s true until it isn’t. Time has a way of slipping past us. Before we realize it, we no longer have …
Post Update: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 We tend to shy away from thinking about our inevitable end. While that’s natural, it’s unfortunate, as our resistance to thinking about death often means that end-of-life planning doesn’t occur. This can be terrible, particularly for terminally ill patients. Instead, patients, their family members, and their caregivers need to …
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Post Update: Sunday, January 09, 2022 Many of us struggle with the decision to begin hospice care. Our natural hesitance to recognize the impending end of life is one of the reasons for that. However, many other factors can make us hesitate. One of those is finance-related. Who pays for hospice care? That’s a natural …
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The decision to enter hospice care is rarely an easy one to make. That applies to family members as much as it does to the patient themselves. Often, the family will have a mixture of responsibilities and duties that combine the roles of traditional caregiver with loving child or grandchild. It can be more than …
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