Chaplain serving my fellow veterans. Promoting public health approaches to suicide prevention. Anabaptist.
Fascinating insights, which help to explain what I have so often seen.
Author of GONE FROM MY SIGHT aka: "the hospice blue book", NHPCO Hospice Innovator Award, End of Life Educator
When a person’s disease can’t be fixed, and death is going to be its result, the goal becomes one of providing comfort. ALWAYS offering food but not forcing is the comfort we give now. Offer favorite foods, offer liquid protein supplements, offer small, high protein snacks. Forget about three meals a day. Three regular meals is too much food and overwhelming. ALWAYS OFFER SMALL AMOUNTS OF FOOD FREQUENTLY but don’t force or be disappointed when the food is not eaten. The body is doing what it will always do when death approaches, when we don’t interfere with the wonders of our modern technology. The body will reject the food and gradually stop eating. Remember we are all going to die some day. Death is very much a part of the life experience. How the body dies naturally is by gradually not eating. #hospice #hospicenurse #hospicecare #endoflife #death #dying #caregiver #caregiving #familycaregiver #endoflifedoula #deatheducation
