brad | Shared With: Everyone - May 05 2008 | medicine, geriatrics, hospice
Great article on bringing some of the lessons of hospice into the larger senior community.
Quoted: “Slow medicine,” which encourages less aggressive care at the end of life, is increasingly available in nursing homes.
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Kendal begins by asking newcomers whether they want to be resuscitated or go to the hospital and under what circumstances. “They give me an amazingly puzzled look, like ‘Why wouldn’t I?’ “ said Brenda Jordan, Kendal’s second nurse practitioner.She replies with CPR survival statistics: A 2002 study, published in the journal Heart, found that fewer than 2 percent of people in their 80s and 90s who had been resuscitated for cardiac arrest at home lived for one month.
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