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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2025
Healthcare providers try to prepare their patients and clients for death, but may encounter obstacles from their own ethos in addition to client resistance. Palliative and hospice care provide affordable and humane avenues that differ slightly. Palliative care focuses on client comfort and may coincide with other treatments. Hospice, by definition, follows cessation of treatment. Previously discussed issues of agency, consent, and epistemology now coalesce, potentially to impede or prevent provision of the best end-of-life care, whatever that may be for the patient. Controversial issues include euthanasia and organ donation, though euthanasia is probably millennia old. Patient-centered communication provides tools to bridge understanding. People need support in these situations, which may need to be offered in particular ways.
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