Looking after your health and wellbeing is important when you are living with a terminal (life-limiting) condition. The articles listed on this page aim to answer questions you may have about pain and other symptoms and to provide ideas for coping with your situation. There are also suggestions for talking to your family, friends and children about your illness.
Information, sources of support and tips from experts on how to cope with a terminal diagnosis.
Find out how pain and other symptoms, such as constipation, can be managed. Includes self-help suggestions.
Ideas on how to bring up the topic of your illness and the future, with suggestions of words you can use and booklets that might help.
If you have children it may feel very difficult to talk to them, but talking can prevent them from being alone with their worries. Find some suggestions here.
Dr Ros Taylor explains hospice care in general, and talks about the care provided at the Hospice of St Francis, where she is director.
This article offers information about changes that may happen in the last stages of life.
