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What to expect in the last days of life : a guide for caregivers
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/chpams35517
Capital Health (N.S.). Palliative Care.
Halifax, NS:
Capital Health
, 2015.
- Pamphlet Number
- 1562
- Available Online
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This guide will help you care for yourself and your loved one during your last days and hours together at home. This information will also be useful if you are caring for someone in a hospital, hospice or another institution, like a long-term care home. Topics include physical changes, eating and drinking, pain, restlessness, mouth, nose and eye care, weakness, changes in breathing patterns, looking after yourself, what to expect very near the time of death as well as when your loved one dies.
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
- Corporate Author
- Capital Health (N.S.). Palliative Care
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Capital Health
- Date of Publication
- 2015
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document (19 p.) : digital, PDF file
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Death
- Hospice Care
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Death
- Hospice care
- Specialty
- Palliative care
- Geriatrics
- Abstract
- This guide will help you care for yourself and your loved one during your last days and hours together at home. This information will also be useful if you are caring for someone in a hospital, hospice or another institution, like a long-term care home. Topics include physical changes, eating and drinking, pain, restlessness, mouth, nose and eye care, weakness, changes in breathing patterns, looking after yourself, what to expect very near the time of death as well as when your loved one dies.
- Responsibility
- Prepared by Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care
- Pamphlet Number
- 1562
