Fewer Americans are dying in hospitals and nursing homes, and more are passing away at home. It's the end-of-life experience most people say they want.
rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects a growing embrace of hospice care and the kind of end-of-life experience that most people say they want.in this week’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine., a cardiologist with the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and the study’s senior author. “Death has become overly medicalized over the last century” and this shows a turn away from that, he added.
“I made him exactly what he wanted to eat, whenever he wanted it. He had a Scotch every night, he had a very high quality of life. If he woke up at 2 o’clock in the morning and wanted to have coffee and pie, that’s what we did,” she said.The type of illness matters, McNair said. Besides her father, she helped care for a brother who died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in his 50s, and her mother, who died at age 92 in a nursing home after a long decline in health.
“We had to really reshuffle our lives. I was determined not to put her into a facility,” said Beach, who is a nurse. “We were alone with her at the time of death and I wish we had had more support.”
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