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Some Facts About Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Things To Consider-Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Handbook For Mortals:
Guidance For People Facing
A Serious Illness
By Joanne Lynn, M.D. and Joan Harrold, M.D.
Foreword by Rosalynn Carter
 
You can order this book anywhere. If you'd like to help send a deserving person
to a Huntington's Disease HDSA National Convention, please order it
through this website Amazon Connection!
This excellent book has a lot more to it then the below excepts.  You may want to consider purchasing the entire book for your family.  The development team for the book included experts in many disciplines and used input from focus groups to ensure that the content was relevant and complete.
This is, without a doubt, one of the most comphrensive and sensitive books on this subject I have seen yet.  Read both the lead in Section and the subsequent sections.  See bottom of page for complete index.  Excerpts you can read:
 
 

2.0 Enduring And Changing

3.0 Finding Meaning

4.0
 

 
 
Related subjects:
 
Why is it hard to let a patient go without eating? (in book)
 
Related subjects:

11.2 Decisions About Resuscitation (CPR)

11.3 Decisions About Ventilation

13.1 Coping With Events Near Death

13.2 Questions About Funerals

 
The complete book, contains the following:
Foreword by Rosalynn Carter
1. Living With Serious Illness
2. Enduring And Changing
3. Finding Meaning
4. Helping Family Make Decisions And Give Care
5. Getting The Help You Need
6. Talking With Your Doctor
7. Controlling Pain
  • Types of pain
  • Choosing the right pain medicine
  • Different ways to take pain medicine
  • Doses of pain medicine
  • A few rules about pain medicine
  • How often to take pain medicine
  • Fear of addiction
  • Side effects of pain medication
  • More medications that relieve pain
8. Managing Other Symptoms
9. Learning About Specific Illnesses
  • How long do I have?
  • Heart disease
  • Cancer
  • Lung disease: chronic emphysema and chronic bronchitis
  • Kidney failure
  • Liver failure
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Dementia
  • Dying while very old
 
 
10. Planning Ahead
11. Forgoing Medical Treatment
  • Thinking about the issues
  • Stopping treatment
  • Time-limited trials
  • When food seems like love
  • The benefits of dehydration at the end of life
  • Tube feeding and the dementia patient
  • Artificial feeding and the permanently unconscious patient
  • Choosing to stop eating and drinking
  • Decisions about ventilators
  • Decisions about resuscitation
  • The many meanings of "DNR"
  • Other decisions to forgo treatment
12. Hastening Death
13. Coping With Events Near Death
14. The Dying Of Children
15. Dying Suddenly
16. Enduring Loss
17. Additional Resources
Acknowledgements
Index

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