Assisted Suicide Thesis

DYING WELL: ASSISTED SUICIDE AND END-OF-LIFE-CARE?
Jeane Salifu
Management of Care and Professional Issues
Prince George’s Community College
October 20,2015

Outline
Title: Dying Well: Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life-Care?
Thesis: End-of-life care is important and should be easy to access.
i. Introduction
a. Description of end-of-life care
b. Thesis statement ii. Preferred place of death for people
a. Survey on where people prefer to die
b. Assessing terminal mental illness iii. Good of end-of-life care
a. Description of end-of-life care
b. The people who should receive the care
c. Medical conditions that require end-of-life care
d. The role of the family in end-of-life care iv. The state of end-of-life today
a. Creation
End of life means the last hours of life or any period in the last year of life for a person with chronic illness. People in the last years of life require health and social care from health institutions and at home to ensure smooth transitions. End-of-life includes Palliative care. Palliative care focuses on pain management, other symptoms and providing psychological and emotional support to the affected patients and the people close to them. The main aim of end-of-life care is to provide support for the people who have advanced progressive and incurable illnesses to live well until the time of death. Care can be delivered by different people each with a role to play in the affected individuals. There is family, friends, and specialist in palliative care. End-of-life care is important and should be easy to
Many things can be done to ensure an improvement of end-of-life services. There is a need to develop a rapid response unit comprising of nurses and specialists for the provision of good end of life care. The care providers should also equip health and social care staff with skills necessary to offer support to people under end-of-life care program. Additionally more palliative care outreach centers are needed to offer services to people under end-of-life care programs. To improve services of these programs, the specialist should help people decide on a place they prefer to die and why it is important. People should not feel death is a taboo subject. The issue of cost needs to be addressed to ensure it is affordable to all the people seeking it to improve end-of-life care. An average end-of-life care program can cost between 186 to 6206 Britain pounds per person as per the survey conducted in 2010. Meeting such costs for many people is expensive, and there is a need for regulation to increase the number of people seeking care. One way the costs can reduce significantly is by taking care of people at home rather than hospitals that are quite expensive. There is a need to address the problems facing end-of-life care to improve the quality of care provided. One way to achieve this is by regulating the costs to ensure every person in need of care can assess it. There is also need to