BY SUSAN M. MATHEWS, PhD, RN, MSBE Have you ever found yourself singing along to all of the lyrics of a song you knew in high school but can’t remember what someone told you last week? Well, there may be a scientific basis for this amazing recall. A research team from the Boston University Alzheimer’s […]
Is physician-assisted dying/suicide just the first step onto the slippery slope of normalizing suicide?
An overwhelming 80% of Americans want to die at home but the reality is that 60% die in the hospital and another 20% die in a nursing home.
LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF The Maine Senate has given preliminary approval to a controversial bill that would allow physicians to prescribe terminally ill adults life-ending drugs. Under the proposal, an individual with a life-expectancy of six months or less would follow a procedure that includes a second opinion by a consulting physician, along with one […]
Knowing the Right Question to Ask BY SUSAN M. MATHEWS, PhD, RN, MSBE The call from the nursing home came at 8 on Wednesday morning. Mom was not getting up for breakfast. Mom was always dressed, with make-up on by 6:30. I told the caller I had a 2-hour drive but was leaving immediately. When […]