#palliativecare — Public Fediverse posts
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Can you tell someone will die months before it happens? A hospice nurse shares the clues.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/hospice-nurse-month-dying-symptoms-ex1/
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No One Dies Lying
On the twenty-second of May, 1929, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a woman named Zenana Shepard sent her nurse to a closet for a bottle of bootleg whiskey. She said the liquor had a strange smell and a strange taste, and she asked whether enough remained in the bottle to test it for poison. Then she said the sentence that would outlive her by four years and travel all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." The doctor was her husband, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the Army medical corps, and the government would later argue he had salted that whiskey with bichloride of mercury because he loved a woman named Grace Brandon and his wife declined to divorce him. Zenana Shepard died on the fifteenth of June. Her husband was convicted of her murder, and her sentence, the spoken one, did much of the convicting. […] -
Minister Manne Lucha besuchte auf seiner #Sommertour den Wohnpark St. Martinus der St. Elisabeth-Stiftung in Blitzenreute. In zwei Wohngruppen können dort bis zu 28 #Pflegebedürftige in familiärer Atmosphäre leben. Minister Lucha gratulierte der Stiftung zum Projektstart und bedankte sich bei allen Mitwirkenden für ihr Engagement.
#Palliativpflege #PalliativeCare #Modellprojekt #Pflege #StElisabethStiftung #Blitzenreute #Hospizarbeit #Palliativpflege #PalliativeCare #Modellprojekt #Pflege
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Last week "Quality of Life Research" published 7 papers:
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/online-first #ISOQOLFor example,
effectiveness of verbal instruction vs video-based education for caregivers of head & neck #cancer patients
https://rdcu.be/diEFn
#India #PalliativeCare#SysReview of psychometric quality of instruments reporting #HRQL in survivors of critical illness
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03487-x #COSMINEstimating the disutility of relapse in #MultipleSclerosis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03486-y #EQ5D #AQoL #SF6D -
At the heart of person-centred care is the experience of being seen and valued for who I am when faced with illness or challenge.
This is something we value in spiritual care and in palliative care. If it matters to you it matters to us. @palliativecare
#compassion #wellbeing #personcentred #healthcare #spiritualcare #pastoralcare #palliativecare #palliativemed #pallicare