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End of Life Issues

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The trauma that arises on facing end of life decisions that affect entire families, is enormous. It is amazing that familes live through that time and stay together.
The lack of preplanning is pervasive and people have ignored the following issues tha are so vital to the survivors:
  • Inheritance, including trusts and wills
  • Funeral issues
  • Resuscitation issues
  • Finance and family survivorship
  • Hospice issues
  • How to speak to your family about these issues prior to death
  • What to do with the house once there is only one member living there?
  • How to avoid battles over 'who gets what'?

In addition, Caring.com, the leader in everything senior, has brought together the leading resources for caring for patients including:
  • the largest national data base of care givers for home care and home care giving
  • The largest national data base  on living communities and facilites
  • the most comprehensive content today to help families deal with people at home including drug management, monitoring, lifting, preparing the home, nutritional issues, exercise (videos by Jack Lalanne), speaking to the patient and all aspects with the home situation
  • the most comprehensive content on health and wellness, which also deals with stress management, nutrition, massage, yoga, acupuncture, mind-body medicine, etc.
  • The most comprehensive collection of data on dealing with the finance and legal aspects of caring and living for seniors
  • The most comprehensive collection of brain health data along with dementia data and how to deal with it
  • The largest collection of assistive devices which permits the patient to Age in Place




Hospices can make the road traveled less onerous. The provide advice on pain mamagement, symptom control and help the families deal with the trauma of caring for a loved one. They are used in the last 6 months of life after all active treatment is felt to have reached its maximum benefit..