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A good life to the end : taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death / Ken Hillman.
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9781760294816 (paperback)
1760294810 (paperback)
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Hillman, Ken
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A good life to the end : taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death / Ken Hillman.
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Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2017.
©2017
Description
viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital, over-treated, infantilised and worst of all, facing death with no dignity at all. A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why. Professor Ken Hillman has worked in intensive care since its inception. But he is appalled by the way ICU has become a place where the frail, soon-to-die and dying are given unnecessary operations and life-prolonging treatments without their wishes being taken into account and with their families being herded into making decisions that are not to the benefit of the patients. A Good Life to the End will embolden and equip us to ask about the options that doctors in hospital should offer us but mostly don't. It lets us know that there is another, gentler option for patients and their loved ones which is much more sympathetic to the final wishes of most people facing the end of their lives. An invaluable support for the elderly as well as their families, and a rallying cry for anyone who's had to witness the unnecessary suffering of a loved one, A Good Life to the End will spark debate, challenge the status quo and change lives.
Subjects
Right to die
Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects
Terminal care facilities
Terminally ill -- Care
Terminally ill -- Family relationships
Older people -- Health and hygiene
Older people -- Family relationships
Hospice care
Terminal care
Death
Palliative treatment
Aging
Quality of life
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Aging
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Death
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Hospice care
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Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
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Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Older people -- Family relationships
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Older people -- Health and hygiene
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Palliative treatment
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Quality of life
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Right to die
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Terminal care
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Terminal care facilities
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Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Terminally ill -- Care
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Terminally ill -- Family relationships
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See Also:
Geriatrics
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Longevity
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Middle age
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Old age
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Bereavement
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Life
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Mortality
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Right to die
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Terminal care
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Terminally ill
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Youth and death
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Geriatrics
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Cost and standard of living
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Economic history
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Human comfort
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Human ecology
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Life
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Quality of work life
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Social history
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Social indicators
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Advance directives (Medical care)
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Death
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Euthanasia
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Life and death, Power over
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Suicide
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Care of the sick
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Critical care medicine
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Death
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Narrower Subject References:
Immortalism
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Authors:
Hillman, Ken
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