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This book is intended to help patients, patients’ families, and caregivers to cope better with their dying loved ones’ struggles and needs at the very end of life. The term “very end” usually implies the dying and death processes. These processes can linger for hours, days, weeks, and even months, irrespective of disease processes and progression. At this stage, treating the disease is not the core target. Instead, the logical goal is focusing on treating the observable and revolving symptoms. These symptoms are best categorized as primary, secondary, and tertiary.
This book’s ultimate goal is to provide better understanding and recommendations for tackling and coping with hospice crisis conditions. Identifying, isolating, and expanding our knowledge about these crisis conditions are key to providing our dying loved ones the comfort they deserve. To accomplish this, we group specific end-of-life crisis conditions into five areas, umbrellas. And then we proceed to answer and provide logical step-by-step therapeutic modality interventions.
This book is also designed to simplify the ups and downs during hospice-related crises. During crises most people tend to forget or mischaracterize relief processes and procedures. Basically, patients and their families and caregivers freak out during real-life crisis situations. A common crisis analogy is that in moments of crises, many people do not remember what to do.