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Rural Appalachian Person And Family Decision Making At End Of Life, Mary Lou Clark Fornehed
Rural Appalachian Person And Family Decision Making At End Of Life, Mary Lou Clark Fornehed
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The dynamics of delivering care to persons at end of life (EOL) have dramatically changed in the last twenty years. Improved management of chronic illness and provision of aggressive life sustaining measures for an illness once deemed fatal are more common, significantly increasing longevity. While it is estimated that more than 40 million persons with life-limiting illness worldwide are candidates for some form of palliative or end-of-life care (EOLC), less than 14% of them will receive it.
When coping with life-limiting illness, people and their families are asked to make many complex and difficult decisions about EOL, palliative, or hospice …