Caring for an Elderly Relative who says they want to die. “The real answer is to help make living as good and meaningful as possible until death”
By Nancy Valko I was disturbed but not really surprised when I read the October 21, 2020 New England Journal of Medicine article by Scott D. Halpern, M.D, Ph.D., titled “Learning about End-of-Life Care from Grandpa”. Dr. Halpern, a palliative care doctor and ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote about his elderly grandfather who had …
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