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Dying from Dementia, Suffering Often Unnecessary
This discussion and research on Dying with Dementia and the unnecessary care that often accompanies the late stages of dementia is worth discussing and considering.ByAlzheimer's Reading RoomThis topic is often overlooked and avoided until it is too late.I believe these issues should be considered, and when possible,discussed in support groups. This information is worth sharing and discussing with family members.Learn More -Coping with Alzheimer'sSince individuals with advanceddementia cannot report their symptoms, these symptoms often are untreated, leaving them vulnerable to pain, difficulty breathing and various other co...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 6, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Alzheimer's Dementia assisted living and memory care facility care homes for elderly with dementia care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home dementia care elderly dementia care Source Type: blogs

The Not-Quite Annual ASCO Round-Up - 2018 edition
by Drew RosielleTheAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, besides being a feast for the pharmaceutical business news pages (google ' ASCO ' and most of the hits will be about how announcement X affected drug company Y ' s stock), is also one of the premiere platforms for publishing original palliative-oncology research. So every year I try to at least scan the abstracts to see what ' s happening, and I figure I might as well blog about it. It ' s tough to analyze abstracts, so I ' ll mostly just be summarizing ones that I think will be of interest to hospice and palliative care folks. I imagine I ' ve missed...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: artificial nutrition ASCO cannabanoid code status conference reviews fatigue hpmglobal marijuana mindfulness mucositis neuropathic oncology pain race rosielle scrambler Source Type: blogs

Can you die from Alzheimer's disease?
A person does not die directly from Alzheimer's disease; but instead, from complications caused by Alzheimer's disease.How do you know when a dementia patient is dying?Over time, and as Alzheimer's progresses, the body's immune system weakens, increasing susceptibility to infection and other causes of death related to the elderly.Typical complications from Alzheimer's and related dementia are:heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, and lung infections due to aspiration of food. Multi-organ failure is often the cause of death in dementia patients.Learn More -Can you die from Alzheimer's disease?By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Rea...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 26, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's alzheimer's care alzheimer's death Alzheimer's Dementia death alzheimer's dying alzheimer's dying dementia end of life caregiving family caergiving health searches related to alzheimer's Source Type: blogs

California AG Emergency Request to Reverse Court Ruling to Invalidate Medical Aid-in-Dying Law
The California attorney general has filed an emergency request with the state court of appeals to reverse a lower court ruling to invalidate the End of Life Option Act. The End of Life Option Act remains in effect until further notice. Similar to laws in Washington, D.C. and six other states, the California law gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live to the option to request prescription medication they can decide to take to end unbearable suffering and die peacefully in their sleep. Last Tuesday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia invalidated the law ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 22, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

An aging physician muses on end-of-life care
As a retired physician who has written a book about end-of-life issues for elderly patients, I have placed myself in an awkward position. According to most guidelines, at age 67, I am elderly. How will I approach the end of my life? Not only do my personal medical concerns career around in the echo chamber of my own mind, but I have the added challenge of trying to follow my own advice regarding end-of-life decision making. And, there are multiple examples of physicians who did not do that. Witness the example of Francis Warren, Harvard’s most famous surgeon of the 20th century, renowned for heroic cancer surgeries and p...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/samuel-harrington" rel="tag" > Samuel Harrington, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

The Ethics of Keeping Alfie Alive
By SAURABH JHA Of my time arguing with doctors, 30 % is spent convincing British doctors that their American counterparts aren’t idiots, 30 % convincing American doctors that British doctors aren’t idiots, and 40 % convincing both that I’m not an idiot. A British doctor once earnestly asked whether American physicians carry credit card reading machines inside their white coats. Myths about the NHS can be equally comical. British doctors don’t prostate every morning in deference to the NHS, like the citizens of Oceania sang to Big Brother in Orwell’s dystopia. Nor, in their daily rounds, do they calculate opportun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized AlfieEvans Source Type: blogs

How Barbara Bush ’s legacy can help us rediscover the benefits of palliative care and hospice
The recent passing of former first lady Barbara Bush, an American icon, also brought a commonly debated discussion to light, palliative, and end of life care. Many articles were published regarding her last days, mentioning she was “foregoing further medical care” or “no longer pursuing medical treatment.” These types of statements are not only inaccurate, they also minimize the incredible medical care provided by palliative care and hospice teams. To realize the utility of these aspects of medical care, it is important to understand them. Palliative care and hospice both focus on managing symptoms. Palliative care...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/shikha-jain" rel="tag" > Shikha Jain, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Geriatrics Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

California Judge Overturns California Medical Aid-in-Dying Law
A California judge granted a motion by opponents of the California End of Life Option Act to overturn the law because he said the legislature violated the state constitution by passing it during a special session limited to health care issues. (HT: C&C) Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel A. Ottolia gave the state attorney general five days to file an emergency appeal of the ruling in the case, Ahn vs. Hestrin — Case RIC1607135, before it will take effect. Unless the appeals court suspends the ruling, it will prevent mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 15, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Music Offers Many Cognitive, Emotional and Physical Benefits to Young and Old
“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” — Macklemore Much research over the years has centered on the potential, perceived and realized benefits of music. In fact, the area of study has blossomed, growing from the preliminary findings of earlier studies to recent ones that built upon them. What’s exciting is the widespread and diverse benefits that music offers to everyone, young, old and in-between. Musical training gives babies’ brains a boost. Even before babies can walk or talk, they can benefit from receivin...
Source: World of Psychology - May 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Brain and Behavior Creativity Happiness Health-related Motivation and Inspiration Research Self-Esteem Stress Coping Emotional Support Music Therapy musical therapy Source Type: blogs

House Introduces Bill to Require CME for Controlled Substance Prescribing
House of Representatives member Representative Susan W. Brooks recently introduced the ADAPT Act of 2018. The ADAPT Act (Abuse Deterrent and Prescriber Training Act of 2018) is an attempt to require training for prescribers of controlled substances. The bill would amend the Controlled Substances Act to include a requirement for all practitioners who are licensed under State law to prescribe controlled substances in Schedule II, III, IV, or V, a written certification that the practitioner has completed 3 hours of training under a specific training program, in all registration or renewal requests. The training program will...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Group Warns D.C. Death with Dignity Act Opponents Not to Try to Repeal Law Again
Compassion & Choices praised Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for her vow today to prevent congressional opponents of Washington, D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act from repealing the law this year, as she did last year.  The DCDWDA gives mentally capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live the option to get a doctor’s prescription for medication they can decide to take to die peacefully in their sleep if their suffering becomes unbearable. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (Ohio), who authored a House concurrent resolution condemning medical aid in dying in 2017, said two w...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 2, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

How to give patients bad news
I would like to give some tips to younger doctors regarding how to tell your patient that he is going to die. Your approach should also incorporate your unique personality, as well as published literature and other resources. For your first case, watch someone more senior tell the patient. See what you think worked and what could be improved. When it is your turn, make sure to have all your technological ducks in a row. Do not tell someone they have cancer, for example, until you have the biopsy back. You can find prognosis aids now for many disorders, though they are somewhat imprecise. Learn the skill of having and showi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/paul-bunge" rel="tag" > Paul Bunge, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

How Does Medical Virtual Reality Make Healthcare More Pleasant?
Medical virtual reality goes entirely against conventional beliefs about technology making healthcare less human, less empathetic and less caring. Virtual reality teaches empathy to med students, makes vaccination for children more sufferable, helps get rid of fears by treating phobias, relieves chronic pain or fulfills the last wishes of the dying. The many faces of medical virtual reality Although the use of virtual reality in healthcare is not widespread yet, the technology holds great promise. Goldman Sachs estimated in its 2016 report that 8 million physicians and medical technicians could make use of augmented reali...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 24, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Virtual Reality in Medicine chronic pain empathy Healthcare pain management pediatrics psychology trauma vaccination VR Source Type: blogs