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End-of-life issues: difficult decisions and dealing with grief.
Full Abstract
People face many challenging psychosocial and spiritual issues as they approach the end of their lives, and caregivers need advice on how to help them. Choosing among treatment options, handling grief, addressing unfinished business, and coping with loss of self-sufficiency are difficult for the dying person, and caregivers must deal with surrogate decision making, raw emotions in the patient and in family members, and the caregivers' own grief. Listening and coping skills are discussed.
Author information
Author/s: Loomis, Beth (B);
Affiliation: Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. eloomis(-atsign-)mah.harvard.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Review
Journal: The Nursing clinics of North America (Nurs Clin North Am), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-Jun; vol 44 (issue 2) : pp 223-31
Dates: Created 2009/05/25; Completed 2009/06/12; Revised 2009/06/23;
PMID: 19463678, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/23/2009, IMS Date: )
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