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  2. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization defines ageism as "the stereotypes (how we think), prejudice (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) towards others or ourselves based on age." [ 65 ] A systematic review in 2017 showed that negative attitudes amongst nurses towards older individuals were related to the characteristics of the older adults and ...

  3. Gerontological nursing - Wikipedia

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    Woman in a residential care home receiving a birthday cake. Gerontological nursing is the specialty of nursing pertaining to older adults. [1] Gerontological nurses work in collaboration with older adults, their families, and communities to support healthy aging, maximum functioning, and quality of life. [2]

  4. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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    Of those patients, 86.6% believe their care is "excellent". [19] Hospice's philosophy is that death is a part of life, so it is personal and unique. Caregivers are encouraged to discuss death with the patients and encourage spiritual exploration (if they so wish). [20]

  5. Death panel - Wikipedia

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    Betsy McCaughey. On July 16, 2009, former lieutenant governor of New York, Betsy McCaughey, a longtime opponent of federal healthcare legislation [9] [10] said Section 1233 of HR 3200 was "a vicious assault on elderly people" [11] because it would "absolutely require" Medicare patients to have counseling sessions every five years that would "tell them how to end their life sooner". [12]

  6. Hospice, Inc. - The Huffington Post

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    The reason for this expansion partially reflects a decades-long shift in attitude among terminally ill patients, who increasingly prefer to spend their final weeks at home instead of in a hospital. But the explosive growth of hospice is also attributable to an all-out marketing blitz by hospice companies eager to keep patient counts high ...

  7. Assisted suicide - Wikipedia

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    negative attitudes of society towards suicide, which can lead to suicidal people experiencing discrimination, stigmatization, exclusion, pathologization, and incarceration. They may be hospitalized and/or drugged without their consent, and have difficulties in finding jobs or housing, and have their parental rights revoked.

  8. Ageism - Wikipedia

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    In the patient-physician interaction, physicians and other healthcare providers may hold attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are associated with ageism against older patients. Studies have found that some physicians do not seem to show any care or concern toward treating the medical problems of older people.

  9. Five stages of grief - Wikipedia

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    The principal aim of On Death and Dying was to fundamentally reshape attitudes toward the experiences of dying patients by advocating for a more humane and patient-centered approach in medical practice and beyond, rather than merely defining the experience of dying in "stages." [49]