Search results for end of life
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Care at home
You may not need to move away from home to receive care, as end of life and hospice care can be provided at home. To find out what’s available locally, ask your GP.
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Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Read about euthanasia (deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering) and assisted suicide (deliberately assisting a person to kill themselves). Both are illegal in England.
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Vascular dementia - Treatment
Find out about the main treatments for vascular dementia, including healthy lifestyle changes, medicine and other therapies.
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Frontotemporal dementia - Treatment
Read about the main treatments for frontotemporal dementia, including medicine and other therapies.
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Dementia with Lewy bodies - Treatment
Find out about the main treatments for dementia with Lewy bodies, including medicine and other therapies.
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Living with
Find advice about living with COPD, including information about staying healthy, flying and financial support.
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Hospice care
The aim of hospice care is to improve the lives of people who have an incurable illness by providing care for people from the point at which their illness is diagnosed as terminal, to the end of their life.
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Being cared for in hospital
In hospital, you will be cared for by the doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who work on the ward where you are staying.
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Why plan ahead?
Read about advance care planning. It involves thinking about and discussing how you would like to be cared for in the final months of your life.
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Heart failure - Living with
Read advice about living with heart failure, including how you can keep yourself as healthy as possible.