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There are many challenges facing hospitals and healthcare in the modern world we are living in. I've created this curation collection to save articles that help me understand what modern health in society is.  The articles here are general in nature and placed here to promote discussion. We advise that you talk with your health professional before changing any of your medication or treatment options.  Any of the online courses listed here may (or may not) be open for access or enrolment. Most are free to browse, some may charge a small fee if you wish to receive a certificate or record of learning.   Every effort is made to ensure that these links are up to date and be aware that some of these articles may be behind a 'paywall'. If you can’t get into an article, email me and I may be able to assist.  Views are my own.
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Terminal lucidity: why do loved ones with dementia sometimes ‘come back’ before death?

Terminal lucidity: why do loved ones with dementia sometimes ‘come back’ before death? | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Being aware of terminal lucidity can help loved ones understand it is part of the dying process.
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It is a privilege to be present when someone dies. If only I’d seen it that way, it would have helped me no end.

It is a privilege to be present when someone dies. If only I’d seen it that way, it would have helped me no end. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
I have received many lovely messages in the weeks since my dad died – including one that will always stay with me, writes Adrian Chiles
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What Fifi the dog’s final months can show us about cancer treatment and caring until the end. By Ranjana Srivastava.

What Fifi the dog’s final months can show us about cancer treatment and caring until the end. By Ranjana Srivastava. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
After a decision to spare her further interventions, she lives a full two months more – and teaches us a few things along the way
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After I Lost My Son, I Realized I Needed to Stop Looking for Closure

After I Lost My Son, I Realized I Needed to Stop Looking for Closure | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?
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When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk?

When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk? | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Proponents of legalising assisted dying are right to stop and think of the possible unintended consequences
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Why losing a parent when you’re a young adult is so hard

Why losing a parent when you’re a young adult is so hard | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
A bereavement counsellor explains how to cope with the loss of a parent.
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Death doulas: helping people at the end of their life

Death doulas: helping people at the end of their life | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
There is a growing demand for people who help the terminally ill have a good death.
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I’ve spent a lifetime dreading the loss of a parent. And now it’s finally happened.

I’ve spent a lifetime dreading the loss of a parent. And now it’s finally happened. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass, asks Adrian Chiles
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Before Her Death, My Daughter Told Me to Look for the Foxes.

Before Her Death, My Daughter Told Me to Look for the Foxes. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
My daughter told us to look out for her after she was gone, and sometimes we find her.
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Dying for beginners: Cory Taylor on facing death with honesty

Dying for beginners: Cory Taylor on facing death with honesty | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Award-winning Australian writer Cory Taylor spent the last years of her life fascinated with her own mortality. In her last weeks, she shared some of her insights in a bedside interview with Richard Fidler.
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All About Living Loss - How to Support Patients and Families - Center to Advance Palliative Care

All About Living Loss - How to Support Patients and Families - Center to Advance Palliative Care | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
A social worker explains ‘living loss’ and provides five ways for clinicians to help patients, and their families, acknowledge and move through their grief.
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We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned (and how it’s different from what you might think)

We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned (and how it’s different from what you might think) | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
There are many social assumptions about how to best ‘get through’ grief. We interview 95 people about their experiences of loss and found we need to rethink what grief looks and feels like.
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Monatophobia - the new word for dying alone. I hope it applies to me

Monatophobia - the new word for dying alone. I hope it applies to me | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Monatophobia means our terror of confronting the thing we dread most without the support of loved ones – the kind of death I wouldn’t mind for myself.
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Opinion - Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty.

Opinion - Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
If health care is interpreted in the truest sense of caring for people’s health, it must extend well beyond the boundaries of hospitals and clinics.
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Cheating death: The latest research on aging and immortality from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist

Cheating death: The latest research on aging and immortality from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
In a new book, Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan raises critical questions about the societal, political and ethical costs of attempts to live forever.
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Dr. Bob, 75, Knows Aging’s Toll. He Wonders if Biden and Trump Do.

Dr. Bob, 75, Knows Aging’s Toll. He Wonders if Biden and Trump Do. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Dr. Bob Ross cares for the aging residents of Ortonville, Minn, even as he wonders whether he, and the presidential candidates, are up to all their tasks.
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People near and far were inspired by Amy Ettinger essay.

People near and far were inspired by Amy Ettinger essay. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Not everyone has moments of clarity when they find out they are dying. My wife did.
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Illness and death are facts of life – Buddhism teaches us to be mindful but not fearful of it

Illness and death are facts of life – Buddhism teaches us to be mindful but not fearful of it | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
The art of developing a healthy relationship with our own mortality lies in neither avoiding the reality of suffering nor obsessing over it
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Bereavement policies need to be updated to better support employees affected by MAID (medical assistance in dying)

Bereavement policies need to be updated to better support employees affected by MAID (medical assistance in dying) | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Most workplace bereavement policies were designed prior to MAID and very few employers have adjusted these policies in light of the new reality of living and dying in Canada.
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A celebration of life

A celebration of life | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Taranaki midwife Sharon Robinson is having a party for friends, families and children she helped bring into the world to celebrate being alive.
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I Asked My Mom if She Was Prepared to Die

I Asked My Mom if She Was Prepared to Die | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Then I talked to some end-of-life experts. Here’s what I found out.
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Bella Brennan on difficult death admin tasks

Bella Brennan on difficult death admin tasks | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
On my to-do list sits one job that’s been there for months and hasn’t been ticked off.
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What grief does to your brain, and how to cope with it.

What grief does to your brain, and how to cope with it. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Understanding how loss affects our brain and body can help us realize that healing from a loss takes time, and we need to be gentle during the grieving process.
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We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned.

We talked to dozens of people about their experience of grief. Here’s what we learned. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Grief is raw, complex, often fraught — and "moving on" from a loss is rarely straightforward or linear. 
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They take kratom to ease pain or anxiety. Sometimes, death follows.

They take kratom to ease pain or anxiety. Sometimes, death follows. | Hospitals and Healthcare | Scoop.it
Industry groups and kratom advocates insist risks of the supplement are exaggerated.
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