- Results found in: The Exchange
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... sorrow, to cry out with. From this perspective, care encourages us to meet others in their pain before journeying together towards their healing and wholeness. Care partnering and transformation True...
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... changes include: • an increased appreciation of life, • greater feelings of compassion and empathy for others, • closer relationships with family members, • stronger spiritual beliefs, • and a greater...
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... ability to participate in sexual activity may wane in the terminal stages of illness, but the need for touch, intimacy, and how one views oneself don’t necessarily wane in tandem. Individuals may in fact...
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... precede an assisted death or voluntary euthanasia, which may lead family members to feel prepared for the death (Starks et al., 2007; Swarte et al., 2003). Additionally, legal frameworks providing clear...
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... distress is found in 20-40% of patients, although only half of those distressed may be referred for specialized psychosocial care (1). Many of those who are most distressed do not receive or accept referral...
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... the health care system we have a responsibility to examine whether patient safety is also an issue for palliative care. The answer of course is an absolute yes. Safety of patients in Canada All health...
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If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which...
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A research poster for healthcare professionals describing the results of a study about whether or not dying people voiced a preferred place of where to die during the last month of life.
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Acknowledgements Ed for the generosity of his spirit and leaving the legacy of his journal Ed’s family, friends and healthcare team who shared their thoughts which have now become the play Dr. Shauna...
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... complex continuing care hospital at which I worked. “Maybe you know that my mother has been here for almost three months and my sister and I realize that we made the wrong decision before she was transferred.