The UK is billed as being the best place in the world to die,but the picture in the capital is far less rosy than national statistics suggest[br]“We had an 87-year-old lady who lived alone, with terminate-stage respiratory issues. During our support worker’s visits she confided she’d had a child in the 1940s, or who had been effect up for adoption. Her dying wish was to make peace with this child. It effect us on a bit of a mission. They tracked the daughter down to Canada and she made the decision to skim over. We were all present and it was one of the most moving things I maintain ever seen in my life. She passed away about two weeks after that but all she kept saying was ‘Now I am alert. I am alert to recede’.” We heard this fable recently from Age UK at the London Assembly health committee meeting on terminate-of-life care. To me,it highlights the compassion and commitment the best care workers maintain, who recede above and beyond the call of duty to meet the needs of dying people. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com