“NPT Reports: Aging Matters: End of Life” is a video published on September 13, 2013, on youtube. The video is about how the culture of death and dying in America has been radically transformed by medical science, how the medical system reinforces our culture-wide unwillingness to face death, as well as efforts to change how Americans understand and talk about dying. The video takes into account personal stories of people who loss a love one to death. The video reviews the perspective of doctors, scholars and medical ethicists regarding the complicated experience of dying, and why so few live the death they say they want.
According to the video in the 19th century things were very different. People died of illnesses that are now treatable. Medicine played a small part in death. The culture of death was omnipresent or …show more content…
Thus creating additional problems such as economic and cultural, spiritual and philosophical issues to have to deal with. Resources will be exhausted for inappropriate reasons.
End of life care needs to be more informed giving the patient the right to choice what they want to do with their care and their lives. Fact: doctors were trained to not disclose to patient their true conditions as it deals with death. The palliative care and hospice care is a way to help patients and their family deal with the realities of death. The goal of palliative care and hospice care to not only treat but to support the rights of patients.
Another way the issue of end of life care was addressed was through the use of Health Advance Care Plan. The Health Advance Care Plan is a document used to communicate with patients a plan on their future healthcare decisions when they no longer able to make their own healthcare
According to the video in the 19th century things were very different. People died of illnesses that are now treatable. Medicine played a small part in death. The culture of death was omnipresent or …show more content…
Thus creating additional problems such as economic and cultural, spiritual and philosophical issues to have to deal with. Resources will be exhausted for inappropriate reasons.
End of life care needs to be more informed giving the patient the right to choice what they want to do with their care and their lives. Fact: doctors were trained to not disclose to patient their true conditions as it deals with death. The palliative care and hospice care is a way to help patients and their family deal with the realities of death. The goal of palliative care and hospice care to not only treat but to support the rights of patients.
Another way the issue of end of life care was addressed was through the use of Health Advance Care Plan. The Health Advance Care Plan is a document used to communicate with patients a plan on their future healthcare decisions when they no longer able to make their own healthcare