How to understand the end of life
Barbara Karnes is a palliative care nurse in Canada, who specialises in explaining the dying process to patients, families and carers. There are, she says, “new rules” to managing and understanding the patient experience at the end of life – rules that see the final stage of life as social and cultural rather than medical. Dying, she says, is not a medical process.
In this short video, she gives advice on how best to ensure the end of life is comfortable, and comforting, for everyone involved – even the family dog.
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