Younger patients receiving end-of-life care at Northern Ireland hospices
Northern Ireland's hospices are treating patients who are younger, and sicker, for end-of-life care as Covid-19 pressures continue.
"Pre-bereavement, we only have one chance to get it right and have those difficult conversations: 'Should my child go to the funeral, should my child go to the wake?'"If you think of a five-year-old and mum has died, where has mum gone? "I remember identifying with a family and wondering how they were going to tell their children, and then two weeks later I was telling my own.
"Patients are waiting much longer to come into hospital because of the visiting restrictions, they don't want to be away from their families."So by the time they come in, they're maybe much more ill, their needs are much more complex."Lots of very rapid diagnosis, people very recently diagnosed coming in to us because they haven't been able to get appointments and things like that, and a much younger age group of people as well.
"The teams are really stretched, not just at Marie Curie, we work so closely with the district nurses and they are stretched in a way I have never experienced before," she said."It just seems to be getting worse, right across Northern Ireland,'I want people to live until they die'
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