Social impacts of terminal illness. What? Social impact – Social consequences for the individual...
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- Social impacts of terminal illness
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- What? Social impact Social consequences for the individual Loss
of normal activities Pre-death grief Guilt Burden on family and
friends Getting your affairs in order Consequences for society Lost
production Cost of healthcare Short and long term effect on family
and friends, especially children Representation in the media
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- Guilt Parents: leaving children, losing children Children: Its
my fault? Partners: Helplessness Grief The tragic loss of normality
Welcome to Holland Welcome to Holland Isolation What do you say?
How do you have a normal social relationship? The Stuff Treatment,
finances, funeral,...
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- The Awfulness
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- Guilt
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- Grief Why dont you just die and get it over with? (Jane Turner
lecture) Welcome to Holland (Not about terminal illness)
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- Practicalities
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- Normal? Its not about the years in your life, its about the
life in your years
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- Links A mothers journey Give sorrow words cancer and
communication Ipswich hospice