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Is death painful or more like uncomfortable?

Advance Planning, All Posts, Palliative Care04 October 2019

ELDAC is providing opportunities for aged care facilities to improve their palliative care - pic courtesy ELDAC

The subject of painful death came up during a recent discussion about the palliative care needs of the elderly. “It’s probably more accurate to describe the discomforts of death, rather than pain at death, since for most people it is uncomfortable rather than painful,” a palliative care nurse explained. That’s very reassuring because a lot […]

Filed Under: Advance Planning, All Posts, Palliative Care Tagged With: Advance care plan, Advance directives, Advance directives and nursing homes, Advance plan, Advance planning, Changing the conversation about death, ELDAC

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Good Grief! is a site by Margaret Rice, aimed at facilitating conversation and providing resources for grief management & palliative care.

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