LAST DAY OF YOUR LIFE


The end of life may be months, weeks, days, or hours. It is a time when many decisions about treatment and care are made for patients with cancer. It is important for families and healthcare providers to know the patient's wishes ahead of time and to talk with the patient openly about end-of-life plans. This will help make it easier for family members to make major decisions for the patient at the end of life.

When treatment choices and plans are discussed before the end of life, it can lower the stress on both the patient and the family. It is most helpful if end-of life planning and decision-making begin soon after the cancer is diagnosed and continue during the course of the disease. Having these decisions in writing can make the patient's wishes clear to both the family and the healthcare team.






When a child is terminally ill, end-of-life discussions with the child's doctor may reduce the time the child spends in the hospital and help the parents feel more prepared.

This summary is about end of life in adults with cancer and where noted, children with cancer. It discusses care during the last days and last hours of life, including treatment of common symptoms and ethical questions that may come up. It may help patients and their families prepare for decisions that they need to make during this time.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Small Wonder House in Horinouchi by Kota Mizuishi It Will Leave You Amazed

Image
This top-heavy house by Japanese architect Kota Mizuishi overlooks a river in west Tokyo.Raising a house at river-front site is a dream of every architect. There was such a site. But there was trouble. The site for this house was sandwiched between a river and a street, located at a junction- hence it had a triangular shape with acute angles. A group of architects at Mizuishi Architects took up this challenge and the result was brilliant. A 29-square metre plot was made into a masterpiece in Suginami, Tokyo, in Japan. All images courtesy mizuishi architect atelier image © Hiroshi Tanigawa. See the plan and construction unfold before you. Japanese practice mizuishi architect atelier,The ‘house in horinouchi’, is a two-storey private dwelling for a family of three in suginami, tokyo, japan. situated on a triangular site between a river and a road, the design is a direct response to the characters and qualities offered by the plot while remaining within the local permits and regul
Read more

Top 10 Most Selfish People You'll Ever Hear About

Image
There are a lot of people in the world, thank goodness, who always put others first and who go out of their way to help people in need. But what about the other end of the spectrum? What about those people who always seem to think of themselves before others, and who always take the biggest slice of cake or the last cookie? When AskReddit posted the question "What's the most selfish thing you've ever witnessed?" Some of the answers were truly shocking 1. Broken brothers. Through a mistake, my brother received a free iPod. This was during a time when they were really blowing up. I offered him $70 for it because this was how much I had saved up so far in order to buy one for myself. He said no because he could get more for it online. Fine. About a year later I was saving up for a new digital camera and he offers to sell me his because he got a new one for Christmas. I pay him $200 for it and he mails it to me (we lived in different states at the time). I get it
Read more

Is Kizomba Dance The Most Amazing Sensual Dance In The World? (Video)

Image
You must have come across a lot of dance forms. The one featured in this article - 'Kizomba Dance' is considered as the most sensual dance form across the globe all because of its uniqueness. The fascination part of this dance form comes from its exotic nature and beats. It is sort of today's salsa. Take a look at what happened at International Kizomba Flashmob in Mexico. It is usually danced in pairs but looks good in group too There are dance forms like 'Bharatanatyam' where the performer wears ethnic attire. Bharatanatyam's theoretical foundations trace to the ancient Sanskrit text Natya Shastra,its existence by 2nd century CE is noted in the ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram, while temple sculptures of 6th to 9th century CE suggest it was a well refined performance art by mid 1st millennium CE.Bharatanatyam is quite possibly the oldest classical dance tradition of India. And then there is 'Belly Dancing' which requires a lot of belly exposure
Read more