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• International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2009 (Vol. 15 No. 12)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Fade Fave: Caring for people dying at home: a research study into the needs of community nurses Fade Skinny: This study aimed to identify the attitudes of community nurses to the care of the dying patient and to examine the factors that influence these attitudes. The study identified that 40% of community nurses ...
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• In case of serious illness, take one of these to protect your legal rights

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 683
  When a physician urges you to "get your affairs in order," it is the unspoken part of his or her message--the imminence of disability or death--that is likely to get top billing in your mind. Getting your affairs in order, however, is still important. And  a newly released guidebook can help get you organized for ...
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• Jan. 5 Briefing on Long-Term Services and Supports

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 530
  The January 2010 edition of Health Affairs focuses on long-term services and supports and the challenges of ensuring affordable, high-quality care to people with disabilities, including many of the nation’s aged. The journal has invited key lawmakers and leading experts in aging and health policy to discuss the ...
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• Organize Around Holiday Health - When Grieving is an Issue

  
  DrDeClutterBlog.com — Authority: 116
  Losses throughout the year of any kind, human, animal, health, wealth or of spirit can take an extra toll during the holiday weeks. Here are a few steps to take care of yourself during this time. 1. Make time to grieve. Set aside time to really feel your feelings, cry your tears and let it all go where it needs to. ...
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• In With The New, Recycle The Old!

  
  Sync Blog — Authority: 135
  As electronics get replaced more frequently with newer, shinier ones, recycling of those old electronics is increasingly important. Many organizations, charities & manufacturers have stepped in to prevent electronic waste from entering our landfills.
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• Euthanasia (Part 2)

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 475
  End of Life Issues I have blogged about these issues before, using the sad case of Eluana Englaro as an example, here and here . For most of us, death comes as a discrete event. The doctor pokes your corpse a bit, listens for a heartbeat and breathing, finds none and writes out your death certificate. You are ...
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• What should you pay for end-of-life care?

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 122
  Treating those with a terminal illness is never easy. In the healthcare arena there are different opinions on how much to spend on end-of-life care and how to approach the patient.   A recent article in The New York Times describes these vast differences. The reporter explains that “the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical ...
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• Euthanasia (Part 1)

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 475
  Euthanasia is a topic not unlike abortion, in that it generates a great deal of heat in a conversation and very little light. Like abortion, it is being practiced in New Zealand. Unlike abortion, there is no set of rules to guide it’s use and overt euthanasia often meets the business end of Law Enforcement – ...
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• OpenOffice.org announces "end-of-life" for version 2.x of its productivity suite

  
  Ramble on — Authority: 122
  OpenOffice.org announces "end-of-life" for version 2.x of its productivity suite : Via OpenOffice 2.x End Of Life at Hellow’s Blog . I’ve found pretty interesting the FAQ part: What does end-of-life status mean? Is the software unusable now? So, can I go on using the old version? I’m a Linux user, and my ...
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• 2010 FirstLook: The Thousand Mile Stare By Gary Reiswig

  
  BASIL & SPICE--Mind And Body! — Authority: 120
  Review By Patricia Gale Today, with a drop of blood, science can tell each of us whether or not we have a gene that will cause early onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD). This medical leap forward is due in large part to the Reiswig family, who had the courage to reverse generations of denial and share their medical ...
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• Love Let Me Go Its Euthanasia

  
  Authspot — Authority: 547
  EUTHANASIA Love let me go Love let me go The time approaches So very fast Life’s a maze Gone aghast The end arrives at last. Love now holds not on to me Let me go so happily Not upon the bed spray Annoyance of disgust Its time for you to help me Let me go just go ...
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• open the gate to unknown mercy

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Re-reading the Comments sent in over the last two days opens a new way of looking at giving and receiving human kindness. Allow me to paraphrase a few readers’ comments:  receive so others can give / gratitude in receiving is a gift to the giver / there’s a lot of love in the world … that’s why keep coming ...
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• standing at the gate of mercy

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Re-reading the Comments sent in over the last two days opens a new way of looking at giving and receiving human kindness. Allow me to paraphrase a few readers’ comments:  receive so others can give / gratitude in receiving is a gift to the giver / there’s a lot of love in the world … that’s why I keep coming ...
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• Husband and Wife

  
  Notes from the Country Doctor — Authority: 111
  I strolled into the morning report room just as the resident presented what happened with a ninety year old woman admitted a few nights earlier during the night which was nothing. She had been whats referred to as a "social admit" meaning cant be managed at home and the family doesnt know what to do with her. To give ...
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• GERMANY: Fire kills three awaiting death at German hospice

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 495
  . COLOGNE, Germany / The Earth Times / DPA / December 19, 2009 A nighttime fire killed three terminally patients at a hospice in Cologne, Germany, police said early Saturday. Police identified two of the dead, aged 71 and 81, but said they had not yet formally identified a third body. A fourth patient, aged ...
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• Spiritual Needs Rank High as Death From Cancer Nears

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 532
  FRIDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Addressing the spiritual needs of someone with advanced cancer could be just as important as taking care of their medical needs, a new study suggests. Image:  read more
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• Life Concerns in Senate Health Care Reform Bill

  
  americans united for life blog — Authority: 516
  I.  Abortion Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill includes pro-abortion language that mirrors the Capps Amendment from the original House health care bill.  The bill: Allows the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to require coverage of any and all abortions through the community health ...
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• Important Webcast: End of Support for Windows 2000 Server and moving to Windows Server 2008 R2

  
  Microsoft SMB Community Blog — Authority: 467
  Earlier this week, I posted about the upcoming Support for Windows XP SP2 Ends July, 2010 - Understand the options webcast taking place tomorrow to ensure you were aware of what this milestone means on the desktop operating system front.  Another very important thing to remember about the July, 2010 timeframe ...
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• UK: MPs back doctors right to help their patients die

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 495
  . LONDON, England / The Times / News / December 16, 2009 (Alamy) By Rosemary Bennett , Social Affairs Correspondent More than half of MPs believe that the law should be changed to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to die without fear of prosecution, according to a new poll. The findings, ...
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• Study Design and Palliative Care Intervention [Letters]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 447
  
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