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2. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Advance care planning - Wikipedia

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   Advance care planning is a process that enables individuals with decisional mental capacity to make plans about their future health care. [1] Advance care plans provide direction to healthcare professionals when a person is not in a position to make and/or communicate their own healthcare choices.

4. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Column: He got his 'End of Life' medication within 48 hours ...

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   California’s End of Life Option Act had just been tweaked to allow terminally ill patients to get life-ending medication in 48 hours rather than having to wait 15 days.

6. Branching out beyond hospice: End of Life Coalition ... - AOL

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   "Just having the possibility of similar care at end-of-life being back in the community is exciting," Pass said. Community partners interested in attending the Nov. 28 luncheon can call Haywood ...

7. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   The goal was to engage healthcare professionals and educate patients about the importance of advance care planning and end of life care. Polling indicates that 96% of Canadians think that having a conversation with a loved one about planning for the end of life is important.