End of life, continued

legal aspects of end of life and end stage disease

Abstract:  Aims: End of Life (EOL) care providers potentially face by variety of legal and professional dilemma. This study is designed to review and analyze these challenges and approaches to solve them. Materials & Methods:   In this narrative review study, legal aspects of end-of-life care in subjects such as medical assisted dying, decision-making capacity and withdrawal of life-sustaining...

Recognizing death while affirming life: can end of life reform uphold a disabled person's interest in continued life?

Early in 2005, a real-life drama and two acclaimed films engaged the nation in discussions of issues that had been a staple of the end of life field for over twenty-five years. Terri Schiavo’s medical condition resembled that of Nancy Cruzan, whose family had succeeded in convincing the United States Supreme Court to remove her feeding tube. Hollywood’s Million Dollar Baby and Spain’s The Sea I...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

End-of-life care

End-of-life care

A concern with issues associated with the care of people at the end of their life has run throughout the first 7 years of Mortality, with at least one paper on this topic in each volume. The early papers were informed by an interest in palliative care, drawing upon the concerns of the hospice and palliative care movement about how best to provide ‘holistic care’ that addresses social, psycholog...