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A good life to the end : taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death / Ken Hillman.

A good life to the end : taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death / Ken Hillman.
good life to the end :
A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and with their loved ones. A crucial and timely rallying cry against unnecessary suffering and for humanity and gentle acceptance at the end of our lives. A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why. Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital - over-treated, infantilised and, worst of all, facing a death without dignity. Families are being herded into making decisions that are not to the benefit of the patient. Professor Ken Hillman has worked in intensive care since its inception. But he is appalled by the way the ICU has become a place where the frail, soon-to-die and dying are given unnecessary operations and life-prolonging treatments without their wishes being taken into account.

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Object Number Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Reserve
31234039443 616.029 HIL
Adult Non Fiction   Dysart Library . . Available .  
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ISBN 1760294810
9781760294816
Name Hillman, Ken author.
Title A good life to the end : taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death / Ken Hillman.
Published Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017.
Description viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Summary A professor of intensive care asks why so many elderly people linger in pain and confusion in ICU when all they want is to die at home in peace and with their loved ones. A crucial and timely rallying cry against unnecessary suffering and for humanity and gentle acceptance at the end of our lives. A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why. Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital - over-treated, infantilised and, worst of all, facing a death without dignity. Families are being herded into making decisions that are not to the benefit of the patient. Professor Ken Hillman has worked in intensive care since its inception. But he is appalled by the way the ICU has become a place where the frail, soon-to-die and dying are given unnecessary operations and life-prolonging treatments without their wishes being taken into account.
Subjects Terminal Care
Terminally ill -- Care
Critically ill -- Care
Right to die
Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
Hospice care
Palliative treatment
Medical ethics
Terminal Care
Ethics, Medical
Critically ill -- Care
Hospice care
Medical ethics
Palliative treatment
Right to die
Terminal Care
Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
Terminally ill -- Care
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