End of Life Issues

Also called: Death and dying, Terminal care

Planning for the end of life can be difficult. But by deciding what end-of-life care best suits your needs when you are healthy, you can help those close to you make the right choices when the time comes.

End-of-life planning usually includes making choices about the following:

• The goals of care (for example, whether to use certain medicines during the last days of life)
• Where you want to spend your final days
• Which treatments for end-of-life care you wish to receive
• What type of palliative care and hospice care you wish to receive

Advance directives can help make your wishes clear to your family and health care providers.

• Deciding about treatments that prolong life (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Do not resuscitate orders (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Palliative care – what the final days are like (Medical Encyclopedia)

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