{"id":4423,"date":"2016-06-04T21:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:35:59","slug":"understanding-end-of-life-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4423","title":{"rendered":"Understanding End-of-Life Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seminar on understanding the End-of-Life Care was held on April 24, 2016 at the Blacktown Library Function Centre, under the auspices of the <strong>Timek Iti La Union Association<\/strong>. The speaker was <strong>Remedios Alvarez-Solarte,<\/strong> MSN, RN, NP, Professor Emeritus of Nursing from Michigan, USA. She is a multi-awarded Filipino-American, who is a Founding Member of the Philippine Nurses Association of America (PNAA) and an inducted member of the Far Eastern University Institute of Nursing, Hall of Fame. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that death statistics worldwide showed that the two most common causes of death are coronary artery disease and stroke\/ cerebrovascular diseases. Illness\/dying trajectories were discussed including the disparity between the way people die and the way they want to die as well as patient\/family perspective. Most adults prefer to be cared for at home if terminally ill and majority would be interested in a comprehensive program of end-of-life care such as a palliative care unit or a nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>Quality of life dimensions encompass the physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of a person. Physical includes functional ability, strength and fatigue, sleep and rest, nausea, constipation and pain.<\/p>\n<p>Psychological dimensions include anxiety, depression, enjoyment, leisure, pain, distress, happiness, fear, cognition and attention. Social dimensions are the financial burden, care giver burden, roles and relationships, affection\/sexual function and appearance. Spiritual includes hope, suffering, meaning of pain, religiosity and transcendence.<\/p>\n<p>The dying experience impacts all dimensions. It can differ from person to person and can only be defined by the patient based on their own life experiences.<\/p>\n<p>She ended the seminar with five important tasks for us to do and say to a dying person: 1)\u00a0Please forgive me; 2)\u00a0I forgive you; 3)\u00a0I love you; 4) Thank you; 5) Goodbye.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>by Dr. Cora A. Francisco, <\/strong><strong>President, TILAUNA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seminar on understanding the End-of-Life Care was held on April 24, 2016 at the Blacktown Library Function Centre, under the auspices of the Timek Iti La Union Association. The speaker was Remedios Alvarez-Solarte, MSN, RN, NP, Professor Emeritus of Nursing from Michigan, USA. She is a multi-awarded Filipino-American, who is a Founding Member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,36,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}