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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBLeaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care - Home. Death is a difficult topic for everyone, and yet it happens to everyone. End-of-life issues can be hard to navigate but …

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Changes That May Occur

WEBJust before a person dies, and as death is occurring, the body changes a lot. These changes can happen in the hours before the person dies. Some changes …

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Making Medical Decisions

WEBIt is often hard to make medical decisions, especially ones that involve end-of-life care. Many people say they do not want to die slowly, hooked up to machines or fed artificially …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBAdvance Directives are an important step, but it is still important to reflect thoughtfully on your wishes and communicate openly and often with those who may have to make …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBLeaving Well offers important resources to ensure every person in Utah has the opportunity to live well to the end of life by sharing the conversation about their values, making their …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBAsk someone to be your spokesperson. If you are able to connect well with one family member or friend, ask this person to initiate and lead the discussion with other family …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBPalliative care, unlike other kinds of medicine, does not try to cure a disease. Instead, the goal is to relieve symptoms. View a current list of providers who specialize in palliative …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBPalliative care, unlike other kinds of medicine, does not try to cure a disease.Instead the goal is to relieve symptoms. Because it is not curative, palliative care is usually …

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KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT

WEBUnderstanding the ProcessCommunicating with Friends & FamilyDiscussing Death with Children

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBAfter your death, your family members will be asked about organ donation.  Considering your preferences and communicating them to your family will ease …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBPsychological and emotional changes are significant in end-of-life situations. The patient who is aware may be grieving his or her own passing and could be facing extreme fear …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBWhere to Get Help When Your Loved One Dies at Home. If your loved one appears to have died at home, do not call 911 or ambulance services unless you want the paramedics to …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBHospice is a special kind of care that offers comfort and support to people living with a terminal illness. Hospice services are available to people who can no longer benefit from …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBpdf Personal Priorities and Spiritual Values Important to Your Medical Decisions People have personal priorities and spiritual beliefs that affect their medical decisions. Use the …

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Peter Saul: Let's talk about dying

WEBIn this brief and wise TED talk, Australian physician, Dr. Peter Saul, calls on all of us to overcome the cultural taboos that keep us from talking about death and poses …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBManaging family dynamics is a common issue at the end of life and during serious illness. There are multiple personalities within the family unit and with those personalities come …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEB© 2019-2023 Utah Hospital Association. The Utah Hospital Association maintains this website for policy makers, health care providers, and those in search of help in

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBIn the healthcare context, the ability of a patient to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of healthcare decisions and to make informed choices.

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBA state of disease characterized by a progressive deterioration with impairment of function which without aggressive intervention, survival is anticipated to be six months or less.

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Doctors do not want to be resuscitated

WEBListen to a story from NPR radio lab about the Johns Hopkins study that asked aging doctors about their views on end-of-life treatments. There seems to be a …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBLeaving Well Utah (LWU) has been recently formed under the auspices of the Utah Hospital Association with the goal to improve end of life care in Utah for patients and their …

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Leaving Well: Utah Guide to End-of-Life Health Care

WEBLeaving Well offers important resources to ensure every person in Utah has the opportunity to live well to the end of life by sharing the conversation about their values, making their …

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