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Proactive: Spiritual care for terminal restlessness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2006

NANCY TELOS
NANCY TELOS
Affiliation:
Marriage and Family Therapy, Star, Idaho 83669-5275, USA
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According to the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacology, 25–88% of all hospice patients, caregivers, and hospice staff will observe significant changes in a patient's behaviors. Some of the changes include picking at sheets or Depends, restlessness movements of the arms and legs, confusion, tight clutching at caregiver's hands, and twitching and jerking. These signs are usually categorized as terminal restlessness. Sometimes, the cause is a medical condition that can be treated.

Type
ESSAY/PERSONAL REFLECTION
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 245 - 246
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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