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1. Assistance from family members, friends, paid care givers, and volunteers in the care of terminally ill patients

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   services, and personal care. We interviewed terminally ill adults and their care givers in six randomly ... terminally ill patients, 59.4 percent were over the age of 65 years, and 51.5 percent were women. The most ... frequent terminal illness was cancer (in 51.8 percent of the patients), followed by heart disease (18.0 ...

   DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. —

   07/25/2014

2. What terminally ill patients care about: Toward a validated construct of patients' perspectives

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   conclude that: (1) Personally meaningful aspects of patients' experience of terminal illness can be ...

   DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr. —

   07/25/2014

3. Minnesota End-of-Life Option Act: Medical Aid in Dying is a Compassionate Option for Terminally Ill Patients

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   related to this bill. Pressented here are perspectives from a patient with a terminal illness, an Oregon ... aid in dying as a patient with a terminal illness; (2) Doctor David R. Grube, who discusses the ...

   Minnesota Northstar Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) —

   02/06/2023

4. Quality of Life Scale

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   their overall comfort and happiness. Quality of life scales are typically used when a pet has a terminal ... illness or is at an end of life stage.   About The Organization: Journeys Home Pet Euthanasia LLC is an ... quality of life in pets.   Keywords: Euthenasia, Veterinary, Pet loss, Grief, Quality of life, Terminal ...

   Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

   03/11/2025

5. How To Die In Oregon

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   Resource Type:  Video 213 reads In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill ... intimately involved with the practice today-- terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and ...

   Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

   11/24/2024

6. To End Our Days: The Social, Legal and Political Dimensions of the End-of-Life Debate

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   terminally ill should have the right to take their own lives to how much treatment and sustenance those in ... research. Keywords: End-of-life debate, Physician-assisted suicide, Euthanasia, Right to die, Terminally ill ...

   Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

   03/09/2025

7. Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape (Proceedings of a Workshop)

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   Resource Type:  Book 165 reads The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill ... in science and health policy.   Keywords: Terminally Ill Patients, Life-ending Medications, ...

   Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

   12/07/2024

8. Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services On Hospice Coverage, Levels Of Care, Coinsurance, And Hospital Quality And Reporting Program

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   support for terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice care changes the focus to comfort care ... physician certifies them as terminally ill, with a medical prognosis of 6 months or less to live if the ... rights to Medicare payments for the terminal illness and related conditions. After certification, the ...

   Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

   11/19/2024

9. 5 Facts About Americans’ Views On Life-And-Death Issues

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   would allow doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients and 49% opposed,  largely the same as ... physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, but state officials do not keep track of such deaths. Since ... Medical treatment decisions, Right to die, Ethnic differences in end-of-life preferences, Terminally ill ...

   Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

   03/09/2025

10. A Toolkit On Advanced Serious Illness From The Dougy Center

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    tipsheets parents & caregivers terminal illness End-of-life care hospice and palliative care Cancer ...

    Death Dying and End of Life Resources —

    11/24/2024