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Dr Ros Taylor

@hospicedoc.bsky.social

Vintage palliative physician

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Recognising the Last Weeks and Days of Life – What to expect when someone is dying or near death
YouTube video by Reach by Nightingale Hammerson Recognising the Last Weeks and Days of Life – What to expect when someone is dying or near death

Let me know what you think of this animation about the process of dying ?

youtu.be/qi9LdSfESvY?...

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13.11.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assisted dying can’t be sanitised. Stop trying MPs’ attempts to improve Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill have only revealed that the entire project is confused

Great piece by @sarahditum.bsky.social on fear of dying

www.thetimes.com/article/4cc1...

14.05.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜You can let go now’: inside the hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain The long read: In a Danish palliative care unit, the alternative to assisted dying is not striving to cure, offering relief and comfort to patients and their families

A great ( long) read about life (and death) in a Danish palliative care unit

Baltic compassion

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

22.04.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does your role include care of people towards the end of their lives at home, in hospital or care homes?
This looks good:
my pals at Harlington Hospice invite you to join them for an updates day on 18th June.
Apply here www.harlingtonhospice.org/conference/

08.04.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Touch and Goa !

We completed Shirley’s repatriation to Goa yesterday

Many people want to be where they feel they belong in their final days

Do we ask? And do we make it happen enough I wonder?

www.harlingtonhospice.org/touch-and-go...

29.12.2024 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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