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CHAPTER ONE
Life’s Final Stage
-Weight loss
-Dependency
-Inability to Fight Infections
-Pneumonia
-Sepsis

CHAPTER TWO
Why Recovery is Not Possible
-No Appetite
-Progressive Weakness
-At Risk for Pneumonia
-Heart Trouble
-Organ Failure
-Fighting Infections

CHAPTER THREE
At the End
-Fatigue and Weakness
-Changes in Breathing Patterns
-Stopping of Eating and Drinking
-Managing Pain
-Confusion
-Loss of Bowel and Bladder
-Body Temperature Changes
-Terminal Restlessness
-The Moment of Death
-Signs that Death has Occurred

CHAPTER FOUR
Communicating with your Loved One
-Denial
-Anger and Guilt

CHAPTER FIVE
Hospice Care and Palliative Care

END NOTES


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