‘Fix-it’ medical approaches often go against people’s wishes near the end of life, creating unnecessary and preventable suffering.
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When a home healthcare aide doesn’t show up, the consequences are immediate and can be dire.
Unhoused people are more likely to die in hospitals or on the streets.
Houseflies greatly amplify the risk of human exposure to harmful microorganisms. Flies caught in three hospices carried microbes that may be resistant to antibiotics.
The distress experienced by people near death is not limited to pain caused by illness or disease. Our research sheds light on the economic and political reasons dying is much harder for some.
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
The challenging realities surrounding end-of-life care are especially difficult for older people experiencing homelessness, who have more barriers to accessing hospice care.
The motivations for Carter’s interest in Africa are deeply personal. His record should remind all democrats, including those in Africa, to hold leaders accountable to high ethical standards.
Aged care facilities and hospices can block access to voluntary assisted dying, despite it being legal in your state.
Palliative care, often misunderstood, is not synonymous with hospice care.
Death-friendly communities that welcome mortality might help us live better lives and provide better care for people at the end of their lives.
More than one-quarter of home care workers are born outside of the U.S. Stricter immigration laws could make it harder to find people to do this aide work.
One of the great success stories in healthcare, a quarter of the UK hospice sector is said to be close to collapse.
Just because a person is dying does not mean that he or she is in a state of panic. Here’s an example of how one woman, through a well-lived life, remained at peace as she faced death.
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Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Glasgow
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NBHRF Research Chair in Community Health and Aging, St. Thomas University (Canada)
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Professor of Gender & Social Justice and English Literature, Trent University
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Research Assistant, Aging In The Right Place | M.A. student, Gerontology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Public Health and Alberta Innovates Research Chair, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor of Law (Health Law), Deakin University
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Associate professor, Gerontology Department, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
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Master's Student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, North Carolina Central University
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Researcher, Aging In the Right Place | M.A. student, Gerontology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand