That Difficult conversation called Death: Hospice and Palliative Care Part 1

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* 1. Hospice and palliative care is one of the most interdisciplinary forms of health care a patient will ever get. It encompasses treatment from: ·
Doctors, Nurses or nurse practitioners, Counselors, Social workers, Pharmacists Physical and occupational therapists, Speech-language pathologists, Hospice aides, Homemakers and Volunteers

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* 2. Despite a growing list of debilitating symptoms during the final months of life, most seniors never receive end-of-life hospice care -- or they delay doing so until their last few weeks of life, new research finds.

"The main message is that the duration of hospice is very short," explained lead study author Dr. Thomas Gill. This, despite the fact that his team "documented high rates of distressing symptoms well before the start of hospice." Gill is the director of the Yale University Program on Aging.

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* 3. The Nurse With The Purple Hair is:

A Friday the 13th movie sequell

A movie about hospice and palliative care that can be watched on youtube

A slasher movie about a nurse with purple hair

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* 4. Death cafes are

A cafe in a cemetary

Something new that Starbucks is launching

A Death Cafe is a scheduled non-profit get-together (called "social franchises" by the organizers) for the purpose of talking about death over food and drink, usually tea and cake. The goal of these nonprofit groups is to educate and help others become more familiar with the end of life. The idea originates with the Swiss sociologist and anthropologist Bernard Crettaz (fr), who organized the first café mortel in 2004. They have since been held in several countries, beginning with France and the United Kingdom.

None of the above

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* 3. The Nurse With The Purple Hair is:

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* 4. Death cafes are

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