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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. End-of-life planning may refer to: Estate planning; Planning for end-of-life ...
In 2013, Japan's first specialized magazine on shūkatsu, End-of-Life Reader Sonae (‘preparation’), was published by Sankei Shimbun Publishing. Subsequently, in 2014, there arose a growing trend towards more casual end-of-life planning, including What-If Calendar to make it easier for people to think about and plan for the end of their lives.
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care, to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital ...
End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death.End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks.
Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope (PATH) is a strengths-based person-centred planning process developed by John O'Brien, Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint.The PATH process is designed to help a focus person establish their own vision for their life and imagine what supports and connections will help them achieve this vision.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande's reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival.
In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
According to Daniel Goleman, Rinpoche was already planning to write a book on living and dying in the late 1970s. [2] In 1983, he met Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Kenneth Ring and other figures in the caring professions and near-death research, and they encouraged him to develop his work in opening up the Tibetan teachings on death and helping the dying.