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A 20 page exploration of the dying process and how it is typically handled in the healthcare establishment. The author presents hospice as a viable alternative to this often less than optimum situation. Hospice cares not just for the clinical aspects of the patients health but also for their personal, social, and psychological aspects. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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File: AM2_PPhospic.rtf
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our ever-growing population hospice care has become a more and more visible alternative in the palliative care options that are available for terminally ill patients, palliative care options that address
all aspects of a persons care when they are no longer responding to curative treatments (Peden, Hill, and Powell, 2005). The goal of hospice palliative care is to assist
patients and their families in addressing the multifaceted issues surrounding the dying process, to assist them in addressing not just the physical issues but also the social, psychological, spiritual and
day-to-day issues surrounding death and the bereavement that follows (Peden, Hill, and Powell, 2005). Palliative hospice care attempts to address the patients and familys expectations and emotions as well
as their needs, it helps them: "prepare for and manage self-determined life closure and the
dying process, [and] cope with loss and grief during the illness and bereavement" (Peden, Hill, and Powell, 2005, 9).
The coping part is an often overlooked component of mainstream healthcare. Death, however, is something that we all must personally face. Dealing with
the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the fact of our own mortality. Those left behind in the dying process undergo a
grieving process, the intensity and degree of which is not controlled only by their relative closeness to the victim but also by the way in which they deal with their
grief. This process can be positively affected by the way they are prepared to deal with their loss by those in the medical profession with whom they interact prior
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