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Explanation of the Peer Group
· Statement of Need
· The Convening Process
Introduction
· Defining ALS
· Issues in End-of-Life Care
Methodology
· Establishing the ALS Workgroup and
· Defining the Aims of the Project
· The Process
· Conceptual Considerations in Defining End of Life Resources and Defining Optimal
Care
Workgroup Findings and Recommendations to the Field
· Psychosocial Care
· Bereavement
· Spirituality
· Quality of Life
· Caregiver Issues
· Ethics
· Communications and Decision Making
· Access to Care
· Cost of Care
· Education
Symptom Management at the End of Life
· Respiratory Care
· Nutrition and Hydration
· Speech and Communication
· Depression and Pseudobulbar Affect
· Insomnia
· Pain
· Last Hours
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| Meeting this challenge requires that health care providers review their own attitudes toward death and life, come to terms with their own mortality and take the necessary steps to address their own personal issues surrounding death and dying. |
