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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.
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 ...
Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer , dementia , advanced heart disease , and for HIV/AIDS , or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury .
Special interests can sometimes interfere with other areas of a person's life, such as school. [29] In children, incorporating a child's special interest into their education has been shown to improve learning outcomes, [ 30 ] [ 28 ] increase attention on learning topics [ 31 ] and teach behaviours such as sportsmanship. [ 32 ]
The term "near-death experience" was used by John C. Lilly in 1972. [14] The term was popularized in 1975 by the work of psychiatrist Raymond Moody, who used it as an umbrella term for out-of-body experiences (OBEs), the "panoramic life review", the Light, the tunnel, or the border. [11]
1. “Cheek to Cheek" by Fred Astaire (1935) While we adore Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's rendition (or even Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's), we can't stop playing the original hit.
35. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” —Sarah Bernhardt 36. “Chemistry is you touching my arm and setting fire to my mind.”Nayyirah Waheed
Activities of daily living (ADLs) is a term used in healthcare to refer to an individual's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measure of their functional status.